Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ('Company')

  

The Company was informed that on 6 March 2006, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust (the 'EST'):

  * transferred 75,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration, of 17â…“ pence per share being 0.0145% 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 EST holds a total of 20,009,440 ordinary
shares representing 3.883% 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 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 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.