Directors' Dealings

Burmah Castrol PLC
17 December 1999


Continuing Obligations - Burmah Castrol plc

Burmah Castrol plc hereby gives notice pursuant to Section 329 of the
Companies Act 1985 that each of the directors listed below by virtue of
his being one of the potential beneficiaries of the Burmah Castrol plc
Employee Share Trust (the 'Share Trust'), he, together with other
employees in the Burmah Castrol Group following the exercise of Executive
Share Options by employees of the Company has become interested in the
number of 0rdinary 42p shares of Burmah Castrol plc detailed in paragraph (b)
below.

(a) Directors who are potential beneficiaries of the Share Trust are listed     
  below:-

    Mr. T.E.P. Stevenson, Mr. B. Hardy, Mr. M.B. Dearden and Mr. J.R.P. Pike.

(b) Transactions notified in relation to the Share Trust are detailed below:

    Date of               No. of Ordinary        Exercise
    Transaction           Shares Exercised       Price

     9.12.99                      1              981p
    15.12.99                  1,346              981p
    16.12.99                      1              981p
    
    TOTAL                     1,348

(c) Following the above transactions, the number of Ordinary Shares of 42p      
   each in Burmah Castrol plc held by the Trustee of the Share Trust is now
    3,580,249.

(d) In respect of the 3,580,249 ordinary shares referred to in paragraph (c)    
   above, options have been granted to the above-named directors over a total   
  of 461,134 of such shares and options have been granted to other              
 participants in the Share Trust over 3,119,115 of such shares.