Further re Acquisition

Wood Group (John) PLC
09 November 2004




9 November 2004


             WOOD GROUP CONTINUES GLOBAL EXPANSION OF ENGINEERING OPERATIONS - 
             ESTABLISHMENT OF MUSTANG ENGINEERING LONDON OFFICE & ACQUISITION 
                 OF WOODHILL ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS

John Wood Group PLC ('Wood Group') has expanded its Eastern Hemisphere
engineering base in London. Subsidiary Mustang Engineering, the leading offshore
engineering design house in Houston, has opened a new office in London as part
of its global expansion strategy. Tony Cruddas has been appointed the Chief
Operating Officer ('COO') with responsibility for developing Mustang's
engineering and project management services in Upstream, Midstream and
Downstream into Europe, Africa, Middle East and the Former Soviet Union.

Wood Group is also pleased to announce the acquisition of Woodhill Engineering
Consultants ('Woodhill') to enhance its London-based engineering capability.
Woodhill provides a wide range of engineering consultancy services to clients in
the Eastern Hemisphere oil & gas industry. Frontier Engineering, Wood Group's
facilities consultancy company in the UK, will be integrated with Woodhill, as
Woodhill Frontier, under the direction of Bill Hobbs, the former owner of
Woodhill, who will report to Tony Cruddas. Woodhill Frontier will expand their
capability in facilities and safety consultancy, and in concept definition and
FEED for small field developments, and will provide a resource base to support
the Mustang operation.

'A key medium-term strategic focus is to continue to globalise Wood Group's
engineering activities,' said Trevor Noble, Board Director responsible for the
Group's engineering activities. 'In order to target important growth regions in
the Eastern Hemisphere, we are enhancing our London-based capability. We will
achieve this by building on Mustang's expertise and reputation, and the
capability and service offering of our London-based operations, including
Woodhill'.

'The move to establish a Mustang European office is in response to customer
demand and we will be providing unique and cost effective solutions to them in
the Eastern Hemisphere,' said Tony Cruddas. 'We are looking forward to the
challenge of translating Mustang's great success in the Americas into achieving
leading positions in our key areas of Upstream, Midstream and Downstream
engineering within the important markets of Europe, Middle East, Africa and the
Former Soviet Union. We are also pleased to welcome Woodhill into the Group and
will be looking to expand their current service offering'.

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Notes to editors:

Wood Group is an international energy services company with more than $2.0 bn
sales, employing more than 13,000 people worldwide and operating in 34
countries. The Group has three businesses-Engineering & Production Facilities,
Well Support, and Gas Turbine Services-providing a range of engineering,
production support, maintenance management and industrial gas turbine overhaul
and repair services to the oil & gas, and power generation industries worldwide.

Wood Group Engineering is an international contracting organisation providing
technically and commercially innovative solutions for the management,
operations, maintenance, engineering, design, modification and decommissioning
of offshore and onshore oil & gas facilities.

Mustang Engineering, a Wood Group company, is an independent services provider
to the domestic and international oil, gas and chemical industries. Mustang is
the market leader worldwide in the engineering design of deepwater facilities
and has been involved in over half of the deepwater facilities in the Gulf of
Mexico. Mustang specializes in design, engineering, procurement, project
management and construction management of upstream oil and gas facilities and
structures, midstream projects, process plants, petrochemicals and chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, pipelines, and automation and control projects. Office
locations include Houston, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Birmingham, Alabama; Savannah,
Georgia; Monroe, Louisiana; Martinez, California; Columbus, Ohio; and
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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