Trading Statement

Wood Group (John) PLC
11 January 2005


John Wood Group PLC: Trading Update

John Wood Group PLC, the international energy services company, issues the
following pre-close period trading update in relation to the year ended 31
December 2004. The preliminary announcement of the results for the year will be
made on 8 March 2005.

The Board anticipates that the Group's EBITA for 2004 will be in line with
expectations.

In Engineering & Production Facilities, Engineering continues to win a high
market share of the currently reduced deepwater market and is increasing its
presence in other upstream as well as midstream and downstream areas. Production
Facilities continues to benefit from the increased international spend by oil
and gas companies as they seek to prolong and enhance production, and is further
investing to broaden its international reach. Well Support continues to perform
strongly with increasing activity levels, particularly in North and South
America, Asia Pacific and Russia. In Gas Turbine Services, the difficult US
power market conditions appear to have stabilised and the programme of cost
reductions and efficiency improvements announced earlier this year is delivering
the anticipated benefits.

Sir Ian Wood, Chairman and Chief Executive, said, '2004 has been a challenging
year for part of our business, but corrective actions have been taken and we
continue to be confident of a return to acceptable growth in 2005'.

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