Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

  

The Company was informed that on 24 April 2007, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust ("EST"):

  * sold 53,098 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £2.75 per
    share, being 0.01% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
    exercises of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2000 Approved and
    Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme; and
   
  * transferred 36,902 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 83.333 pence per share, being 0.007% 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 and
    Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme.
   
AND on 30 April 2007:

  * transferred 30,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 83.333 pence per share, being 0.0057% 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 and
    Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme.
   
AND on 1 May 2007:

  * transferred 30,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 83.333 pence per share, being 0.0043% 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 and
    Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme.
   
Following this transaction, the EST holds a total of 16,110,408 ordinary shares
representing 3.088% 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 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.