Director Shareholding

Wood Group (John) PLC
22 June 2005



RNS ANNOUNCEMENT - 22 June 2005


John Wood Group PLC ('Company')


The Company was informed that on 20 June 2005, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust (the 'EST'):



•  sold 449,574 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
   price of £1.665 per share, being 0.0918% of the share capital of the Company;
   and



•  transferred 780,426 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company
   at a consideration of 17 1/3 pence per share, being 0.1594% 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 21,046,591 ordinary
shares representing 4.298% 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, GROUP HEAD OF LEGAL AND COMPANY SECRETARY.






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