Director/PDMR Shareholding

Wood Group (John) PLC
01 December 2005

RNS ANNOUNCEMENT -  1 December 2005

John Wood Group PLC ('Company')

The Company was informed that on 28 November 2005, the Trustees of the John
Wood Group PLC Employee Share Trust (the 'EST'):

•    sold 7,589 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a £2.05 per 
     share, being 0.0014% of the share capital of the Company;  and

•    transferred 23,870 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a 
     consideration, of 17 1/3 pence per share being 0.0046% 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 20,098,840 ordinary shares
representing 3.9% 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 the shares held by the EST.  The
transaction noted above does 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.


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