Director/PDMR Shareholding

Wood Group (John) PLC
20 July 2005

RNS ANNOUNCEMENT -  20 July 2005


John Wood Group PLC ('Company')

The Company was informed that on 18 July 2005, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust (the 'EST'):

•    sold 2,809 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a £1.8908
     per share, being 0.0005% of the share capital of the Company;  and

•    transferred 27,191 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
     consideration, of 17 1/3 pence per share being 0.0055% 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 19,513,705 ordinary
shares representing 3.9857% 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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