Director Shareholding

BP PLC
18 December 2002


We were advised on 17 December 2002 by Morgan Guarantee Trust Company of New
York that the following Directors of BP p.l.c. received the numbers of BP ADSs
shown opposite their names below on 12 December 2002 @ $39.1838 per ADS under
the Company's US dividend reinvestment plan:-

Mr E.B. Davis, Jr           55.9494 ADSs
                            (equivalent to approximately 336 Ordinary shares)


Mr C.F. Knight              139.952 ADSs
                            (equivalent to approximately 840 Ordinary shares)


Dr W.E. Massey              42.722 ADSs (equivalent to approximately 256 
                                         Ordinary shares)



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