Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

The Company was informed that on 15 September 2006, the Trustees of the John
Wood Group PLC US Employee Share Trust ("US EST"):

  * transferred 125,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 17â…“ pence per share, being 0.0241% of the share capital of
    the Company, to employees of the Company, and its subsidiaries, exercising
    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 these transactions, the US EST holds a total of 1,450,749 ordinary
shares representing 0.28% of the share capital of the Company.

The class of discretionary beneficiaries for whom the US EST holds such shares
consists of employees of the Company, including the following executive
directors of the Company: Wendell R Brooks and Alan G Semple. Each of such
directors is accordingly deemed to be beneficially interested in all of such
shares held by the US EST.

The transaction noted above concerns Wendell Brooks 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