The meeting took place almost a year since the explosion in the Deepwater Horizon platform killed 11 workers and caused about five million barrels of oil gushing into the sea.
Diane Wilson, a fisherwoman from the Texas Gulf Coast oil-stained face as they protested outside the headquarters of General Meeting in London.
"My community is dead. We worked for five generations and we now have a dead community. I am angry, I've been angry too long." Security guards refused him entry to the meeting, even though BP is a shareholder.
About 100 protesters came to show their anger at the actions of BP, from the fishermen of the Gulf of Mexico to the representatives of indigenous communities angry at BP's involvement in the extraction of oil sands in northern Canada. Related article: BP, Rosneft stock exchange to extend deadline to 16 May
BP has tried to pass by the disaster after agreeing to share responsibility with the owners of the affected platform and is selling 30 billion U.S. dollars (21 million euros) in assets to help pay the cleaning bill and compensate fishermen.
But Byron Encalade, president of the Louisiana oyster farmers, said he had crossed the Atlantic to London to show their anger over delays in compensation payments.
"We were the first to feel the impact of the oil spill. I'm here because the claims process has failed to fishing communities along the coast," he said.
"I just wonder where did all that money. We should have gotten."
He said he wanted to see a commitment by BP that the tens of thousands of late and unpaid claims would be investigated.
BP's fortunes were devastated by the spill, widely recognized as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Billions of dollars were removed from the enterprise value as oil dropped from 87 days before the well was plugged.
Hundreds of miles of fragile coastal wetlands and beaches were contaminated, one third of the rich waters of U.S. Gulf were closed to fishing, and economic costs have reached tens of billions of dollars.
BP reported its first annual loss in nearly two decades as a result of the disaster and its stock price remains 30 percent below its level before the stroke.
The fate of oil giant is decisive for the fate of millions of British investors because most British pension funds to invest in the company.
Several shareholders, including the U.S. fund Calpers pension, have said they would vote against the annual report to the General Meeting, partly in protest at the high levels of remuneration for executives of BP, despite the disaster.
Bob Dudley, the American who took over as chief executive of the troubled Tony Hayward, in October, is also facing calls to defend an agreement intended to explore for oil in the Arctic with Russian giant Rosneft.
Rosneft The issue has been postponed until May, after BP said Thursday that he and the Russian company had agreed to extend the deadline for completing a stock swap $ 16000000000 which is key to the deal, which has also raised environmental concerns.