Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ('Company')

  

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

  * sold 8,125 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a £2.1325 per
    share, being 0.00157% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to an
    exercise of share options under the John Wood Group PLC (No 1) 2002
    Executive Share Option Scheme;
   
  * sold 6,275 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a £2.1325 per
    share, being 0.00121% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to an
    exercise of share options under the John Wood Group PLC (No 1) 2003 Long
    Term Retention Plan.
   
Following these transactions, the EST holds a total of 20,084,440 ordinary
shares representing 3.898% 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, Wendell R Brooks, Alan G
Semple, Trevor M Noble and Leslie J Thomas. Each of such directors is
accordingly deemed to be beneficially interested in the shares held by the EST.
The transactions noted above do not involve any of the named executive
directors or any persons discharging managerial responsibility.

  

Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification.

 

IAN JOHNSON, COMPANY SECRETARY.