Holding(s) in Company

BP PLC
22 July 2004


Letter to BP p.l.c.
Dated 20 July 2004


NOTIFICATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 198 TO 202 -- U.K. COMPANIES ACT

1. Company in which shares are held:      BP plc

2. Notifiable Interest:     Ordinary Shares

     (A)   FMR Corp.
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           Parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company 
           (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity 
           Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts 
           as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust 
           accounts. (See Schedule A for listing of Registered Shareholders and 
           their holdings.)

     (B)   Fidelity International Limited (FIL)
           P.O. BOX HM 670
           Hamilton HMCX, Bermuda

           Parent holding company for various direct and indirect subsidiaries,
           including Fidelity Investment Services Ltd. (FISL), and Fidelity 
           Pension Management (FPM), investment managers for various non-US 
           investment companies and institutional clients. (See Schedule A for 
           listing of Registered Shareholders and their holdings).

3.     The notifiable interests also comprise the notifiable interest of:

           Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d
           82 Devonshire Street
           Boston, MA 02109

           A principal shareholder of FMR Corp. and Fidelity International 
           Limited.

4.     The notifiable interests include interest held on behalf of authorized
       unit trust schemes in the U.K., notwithstanding the exemption from 
       reporting pursuant to Section 209 (1)(h) of the Companies Act 1985.

5.     These notifications of disclosable interests constitute separate
       notifications of interest in the shares and are combined solely for 
       the purposes of clarity and efficiency. Nothing herein should be taken to 
       indicate that FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, 
       Fidelity International Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries
       or Mr. Edward C. Johnson 3d act as a group or in concert in respect of 
       the disclosed interests, or that they are required to submit these 
       notifications on a joint basis.

6.     The disclosable interests arise under section 208(4)(b) of the Act,
       namely where a person, not being the registered holder, is entitled
       to exercise a right conferred by the holding of the shares or to 
       control the exercise of such rights, or under section 203 of the Act
       respectively.


SCHEDULE A

Security BP plc

           SHARES HELD   MANAGEMENT   NOMINEE/REGISTERED
                         COMPANY      NAME
(Ordinary Shares)
                18,000   FMRCO        JP Morgan Chase
               163,708   FMRCO        State Street Nominees Limited
             5,228,104   FMRCO        State Street Bank & Trust Company
             4,623,691   FMRCO        Chase Nominees Limited
            13,640,566   FMTC         State Street Nominees Ltd.
             4,221,634   FMTC         Lloyds Bank Nominees Limited
             7,106,211   FMTC         BT Globenet Nominees Limited
             1,035,928   FMTC         Lloyds Bank (Stock Exchange Branch)
                                      Nominees Limited A/C
             2,257,455   FMTC         Chase Nominees Ltd
             3,562,700   FMTC         Bank of New York
            11,579,517   FMTC         State Street Bank & Trust
             1,457,911   FMTC         Mellon Bank
             4,268,283   FMTC         Northern Trust
             1,255,900   FMTC         JP Morgan
               183,543   FMTC         Royal Trust
               128,349   FMTC         Nortrust Nominees
             1,850,200   FMTC         MSS Nominees Limited
               315,900   FMTC         Goldman Sachs and CO.
                29,100   FMTC         Morgan Stanley Trust Co. Nominees Limited 
                                      Bank
            83,799,866   FISL         Chase Manhattan Bank London
            12,994,918   FISL         Chase Nominees Ltd
             6,504,698   FPM          Bankers Trust
             3,591,733   FPM          Bank of New York London
             1,070,237   FPM          Mellon Nominees Ltd
            11,718,812   FPM          Chase Nominees Ltd
             2,238,597   FPM          Citibank
                 7,113   FPM          BBH
             3,693,639   FPM          HSBC
             4,642,897   FPM          Northern Trust
               326,300   FPM          Deutsche Bank
            17,817,326   FIL          Chase Nominees Ltd
            35,142,776   FIL          HSBC Client Holdings Nominee (UK) Limited
             1,696,224   FIL          HSBC
            16,813,648   FIL          Chase Manhattan Bank London
            38,824,048   FIL          Bank of New York London
             4,207,544   FIL          Deutsche Bank
            24,991,598   FIL          Northern Trust
            13,136,132   FIL          State Street Bank & Trust
            26,159,958   FIL          JP Morgan
               860,574   FIL          Citibank
             2,769,303   FIL          Mellon Nominees Ltd
             4,027,053   FIL          State Street Nominees Ltd
             6,945,441   FIL          Bank of New York Brussels
               205,950   FIL          Master Trust Bank of Japan
               564,963   FIL          National Australia Bank
                56,687   FIL          PICG
             1,024,426   FIL          Chase Manhattan Bank AG Frankfurt
             1,089,904   FIL          Bankers Trust
               172,401   FIL          ING Luxembourg
               210,720   FIL          Bermuda Far East
               227,400   FIL          State Street Hong Kong
            10,514,331   FIL          Nortrust Nominees Ltd
             2,801,581   FIL          Morgan Stanley
             1,259,881   FIL          Bank of Bermuda
               274,050   FIL          MSS Nominees Ltd
                67,719   FIL          Mitsubishi Trust

The following number of ordinary shares held is based on the assumed conversion
of 46,646,268 ADR's. (6 ordinary shares for each ADR).

           164,388,972   FMRCO        Chase Nominees Limited          
               216,000   FMRCO        Brown Brothers Harriman
             1,396,440   FMRCO        State Street Bank & Trust
            67,978,920   FMRCO        HSBC
               616,200   FMRCO        JP Morgan Chase
            38,546,052   FMRCO        State Street Nominees Limited
               946,824   FMTC         State Street Bank & Trust
             1,193,400   FMTC         Deutsche Bank
                16,200   FMTC         Chase Nominees Ltd.
             1,253,400   FMTC         Sumitomo T&B
                57,600   FMTC         Brown Brothers Harriman
                 1,800   FMTC         Mellon Bank
             1,410,000   FMTC         State Street Nominees Ltd
             1,310,000   FMTC         MSS Nominees Limited
                45,000   FMTC         BOCP
                12,600   FMTC         Investors Bank & Trust
                66,600   FIL          HSBC
               421,200   FIL          JP Morgan
               412,788   FMTC

Total Ordinary
Shares 
+ ADRs     685,667,544

Current ownership
percentage:       3.14%

Shares in 
issue:  21,870,600,000


Letter from Fidelity International Limited



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