Press Release

Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater’s Letter to BP Claims Administrator Kenneth Feinberg

1/20/2011

M E M O R A N D U M

TO:  Interested Media

FROM: Alexis Lambert, Chief Financial Officer’s Press Secretary

RE: Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater’s Letter to BP Claims Administrator Kenneth Feinberg

Please see the attached letter from Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater to Kenneth Feinberg, BP Claims Administrator, formally requesting that a representative of the Florida Department of Financial Services participate in the methodology being created to determine claims payments.

If you have any questions or need additional information, please call CFO Atwater’s press office at (850) 413-2842.