Director/PDMR Shareholding

Wood Group (John) PLC
16 September 2005

RNS ANNOUNCEMENT -  16 September 2005

 John Wood Group PLC ('Company')

The Company was informed that on 13 September 2005, the Trustees of the John
Wood Group PLC Employee Share Trust (the 'EST'):

•              sold 5,021 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
£2.09 per share, being 0.0009% of the share capital of the Company;

and further

•              transferred 771 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at
a consideration of 158 pence per share being 0.0001% of the share capital of the
Company to employees of the Company and its subsidiaries, exercising share
options under the John Wood Group PLC (No 1) 2002 Executive Share Option Scheme;

•              transferred 2,541 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company
at a consideration of 128.5 pence per share being 0.0004% of the share capital
of the Company to employees of the Company and its subsidiaries, exercising
share options under the John Wood Group PLC (No 1) 2002 Executive Share Option
Scheme;

and further

•              transferred 2,885 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company
at a consideration of 3.33 pence per share being 0.0005% of the share capital of
the Company to employees of the Company and its subsidiaries, exercising share
options under the John Wood Group PLC (No 1) 2003 Long Term Retention Plan.

Following these transactions, the EST holds a total of 20,612,487 ordinary
shares representing 4.001% 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 all of such shares held by the EST.

Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification.

IAN JOHNSON, COMPANY SECRETARY.






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