BP Amoco And MCI WorldCom Sign $650 Million Global Managed Services Agreement

Deal Supports BP Amoco's e-Business Plans

LONDON, UK AND CLINTON, MS, USA - 30 November 1999 - BP Amoco
and MCI WorldCom today announced a five-year, $650 million contract for
total global telecommunications services. The agreement provides a key
underpinning for the delivery of BP Amoco's e-business plans. The
scope of the agreement includes support for all of BP Amoco's
global telecommunications including Internet-based services.

"This is a crucial step to ensuring that we establish a
leadership position, in e-business and beyond," said John Leggate,
BP Amoco's Group Vice President IT. "Technology is changing
the link between our company and the consumer. It's giving us the
opportunity to improve capital efficiency and creating whole new
business opportunities. Global connectivity through the Internet is
providing the basis for new levels of openness, collaboration and
innovation across the world".

The move to MCI WorldCom will allow BP Amoco to migrate its current
regional telecommunications infrastructures to a single global
platform. MCI WorldCom's Global Solutions unit will design,
implement and manage a communications platform for BP Amoco sites
across six continents and 85 countries, enabling a new global network
both internally and externally to customers.

The flexibility and rapid scalability provided by the global
platform -- and particularly the Internet services provided by MCI
WorldCom's UUNET -- will be key to support BP Amoco's
e-business targets, both in the short and medium term.

"Like many corporations today, BP Amoco recognizes that
advanced, reliable, global telecommunications are a fundamental
component of the new business environment," said Bernie Ebbers,
MCI WorldCom's Chief Executive Officer. "BP Amoco's
confidence in MCI WorldCom to provide its critical communications
services is a testimony to our unique ability to deliver and manage
integrated global services for the world's most progressive
companies."

BP Amoco is one of the world's largest energy and petrochemicals
groups, with 1998 revenues of over $83 billion. The company's main
activities are exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas;
refining, marketing, gas marketing, supply and transportation;
manufacturing and marketing of petrochemicals, and a growing activity
in solar power generation. BP Amoco has well-established operations in
Europe, North and South America, Australasia and parts of Africa. More
information about the company can be found at: www.bpamoco.com.

MCI WorldCom's Global Solution unit provides seamless, expert
solutions that address complex IT needs to maximize the competitive
advantage of networking-based communications in a global environment
for some of the world's largest corporations.

MCI WorldCom (NASDAQ: WCOM) is a global leader in communications
services with 1998 revenues of more than $30 billion and operations in
more than 65 countries. MCI WorldCom's global networks provide
high-capacity connectivity to more than 45,000 buildings worldwide. MCI
WorldCom and Sprint have announced a merger agreement, which the
companies expect to close in the second half of 2000, following
regulatory and shareholder approvals. The new company will be called
WorldCom. For more information go to http://www.wcom.com.

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