Director Shareholding

BP PLC
17 March 2005


We were advised today, 17 March 2005, by Mourant & Co., Trustees of the BP
Employee Share Ownership Plan, that the following Directors of BP p.l.c.
received the numbers of BP Ordinary shares shown opposite their names on 14
March 2005 @ £5.597315 per share, as a result of reinvestment of dividends on
shares held by them in the Plan:-


Mr I C Conn                           245 shares

Dr. A.B. Hayward                    1,172 shares

Mr. J.A. Manzoni                      961 shares



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