Directorate Change

BP PLC
21 October 2004

October 21, 2004

                         BP NON-EXECUTIVE BOARD CHANGES

The board of BP p.l.c. announced today that Mr. Douglas Flint has been appointed
as a non-executive director with effect from January 1, 2005. Mr. Flint is the
group finance director of HSBC Holdings plc. He has held this post since 1995.
Previously he was a partner with the auditing firm KPMG.

Mr. Flint is a member of the Accounting Standards Board and also a member of the
Standards Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Committee.
He is presently chairing a review on behalf of the Financial Reporting Council
of the Turnbull Guidance on internal control.

Although he will initially have no BP board committee appointments, Mr. Flint
will join the audit committee in the first half of 2005.

Sir Robin Nicholson and Mr. Charles Knight will be retiring from the BP board at
the 2005 AGM. Both are members of the board's remuneration committee, with Sir
Robin as chairman. Dr. DeAnne Julius, a current member of the remuneration
committee, will take the chair in succession to Sir Robin. Mr. John Bryan has
now been appointed to the remuneration committee.

Mr. Tony Burgmans and Sir Tom McKillop, both recently appointed non-executive
directors of the board, have joined the ethics and environment assurance
committee and the remuneration committee respectively.

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