Director/PDMR Shareholding

Wood Group (John) PLC
20 September 2005



RNS ANNOUNCEMENT -  20 September 2005



John Wood Group PLC ('Company')



The Company was informed that on 19 September 2005, the Trustees of the John
Wood Group PLC Employee Share Trust (the 'EST'):



•   sold 12,174 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    £2.14 per share, being 0.0023% of the share capital of the Company;  and



•   transferred 137,826 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company
    at a consideration, of 17 1/3 pence per share being 0.0267% 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 this transaction, the EST holds a total of 20,462,487 ordinary shares
representing 3.9723% 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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