Modern enterprises use service-oriented architecture to accommodate business agility. One of the most important SOA standards is BPEL, because it provides a means to specify business processes and their interaction. In this paper we examine patterns that are related to BPEL or can be implemented in BPEL. The most important identified pattern types are SOA patterns, workflow patterns and integration patterns. We analyze these aforementioned sets of patterns, sort out and briefly describe patterns used for web service composition and patterns that can be implemented in BPEL. The main aim of this paper is to list existing patterns that are relevant to BPEL developers.