Douglas Ford Appointed Executive Director

BP Amoco PLC
18 November 1999


                          BP AMOCO BOARD APPOINTMENT

The  board  of  BP Amoco p.l.c. announced today that it is to appoint
W  Douglas Ford as an executive director of the company, with effect from
January 1, 2000.

Doug  Ford (55) is chief executive of BP Amoco's Refining and Marketing
business, responsible  for  the  company's  downstream  operations,  including
marketing, refining  and  transportation as well as aviation and marine fuels
and  BP  Amoco Shipping.

Prior  to the merger of BP and Amoco, he had been an executive vice president 
of Amoco  Corporation  since July, 1993, with responsibility for  Amoco's 
petroleum products sector and worldwide engineering and construction
operations and, before that, president of Amoco Oil Company.

Doug Ford joined Amoco in 1970 as a process development research engineer at 
the company's research and development centre in Naperville, Illinois. After a
series of  promotions he became engineering and technical manager at Amoco's
Texas  City refinery in 1980.

In  1982, he moved to the company's Whiting refinery in Indiana as manager of
the catalytic  division. In 1985 he became Amoco Oil's manager of  supply 
operations coordinating light oils in Chicago, and manager of
operations-planning for  light oils  in 1986. He was appointed St. Louis
marketing district manager in 1987  and regional production manager for Amoco
Production Company in Denver in 1989.

He  is  a non-executive director of USG Corporation and a member of the board 
of trustees of the Lincoln Foundation for Business Excellence, the Advisory 
Council for  Graduate  Studies  and Research for the University of  Notre 
Dame  and  the McCormick Advisory Council at Northwestern University. He is
also a member of the board of directors of the Children's Memorial Hospital in
Chicago.

A native of Danvers, Massachusetts, Doug Ford has a bachelor's degree in
chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in chemical
engineering from Northwestern University.

He and his wife, Kathleen, have four sons.