Transaction in Own Shares

BP PLC
17 November 2005


BP p.l.c. - Transaction in Own Shares
BP p.l.c. - 17 November 2005

BP p.l.c. announces that on 16 November 2005 it transferred to participants in
its employee share schemes 30,434 ordinary shares at prices between 350.00 pence
and 511.00 pence. These shares were previously held as treasury shares.

Following the above transactions, BP p.l.c. holds 849,947,448 ordinary shares in
Treasury, and has 20,787,372,067 ordinary shares in issue (excluding Treasury
shares).

Enquiries: Fergus MacLeod, BP p.l.c. Tel : [phone]



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