Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

  

The Company was informed that on 4 April 2006, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust ("EST"):

  * sold 96,924 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £2.58 per
    share, being 0.0188% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to an
    exercise of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2000 Approved
    Executive Share Option Scheme and the John Wood Group PLC 2000 Unapproved
    Executive Share Option Scheme (together "Schemes").
   
Following this transaction, the EST holds a total of 19,622,590 ordinary shares
representing 3.807% of the share capital of the Company.

The class of discretionary beneficiaries for whom the EST holds such shares
consists of employees of the Company, including the following executive
directors of the Company: Allister G Langlands, Trevor M Noble, Leslie J Thomas
and Mark Papworth. Each of such directors is accordingly deemed to be
beneficially interested in the shares held by the EST.

The transaction noted above concerns Allister Langlands only. Full details
concerning the transaction and the effect on his holdings has been notified
separately.

  

Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification.

 

IAN JOHNSON, COMPANY SECRETARY.