Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

  

The Company has been informed that on 11 July 2007, the Trustees of the John
Wood Group PLC Employee Share Trust ("EST"):

  * sold 6,924 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £3.255 per
    share, being 0.0013% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
    exercises of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2003 Long Term
    Retention Plan;
   
and on 12 July 2007:

  * transferred 12,116 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 83.333 pence per share, being 0.0023% of the share capital
    of the Company, to employees of the Company, and its subsidiaries,
    exercising share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2002 Approved and 
    Unapproved Executive Share Options Schemes;
   
  * sold 13,848 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £3.325466 per
    share, being 0.0026% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
    exercises of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2003 Long Term
    Retention Plan;
   
  * sold 2,884 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £3.33 per
    share, being 0.0005% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
    exercises of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2002 Approved and 
    Unapproved Executive Share Options Schemes;
   
and on 13 July 2007:

  * sold 5,193 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £ 3.40 per
    share, being 0.0009% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
    exercises of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2003 Long Term
    Retention Plan
   
Following this transaction, the EST holds a total of 16,078,388 ordinary shares
representing 3.071% 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, Leslie J Thomas and Mark H
Papworth. Each of such directors is accordingly deemed to be beneficially
interested in the shares held by the EST.

The transaction noted above does not involve any of the Company's directors or
any persons discharging managerial responsibility.

  

Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification.

 

IAN JOHNSON, COMPANY SECRETARY.