Director/PDMR Shareholding

6 April 2006

 

 

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

 

  

The Company was informed that on 5 April 2006, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust ("EST") transferred 548,286 ordinary shares in
the capital of the Company at nil consideration, being 0.106% of the share
capital of the Company to the Trustees of the John Wood Group PLC US Employee
Share Trust ("US EST").

Such shares were transferred to the US EST in order to satisfy obligations
arising from Restricted Shares awarded to the Company's US employees under The
John Wood Group PLC Long Term Incentive Scheme ("LTIS").

Following this transfer:

  * the EST holds a total of 19,074,304 ordinary shares representing 3.70% of
    the share capital of the Company; and
   
  * the US EST holds a total of 1,615,749 ordinary shares representing 0.3135%
    of the share capital of the Company.
   
The class of discretionary beneficiaries for whom the EST and US EST hold 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, Leslie J Thomas and Mark H Papworth. Each of such
directors is accordingly deemed to be beneficially interested in the shares.

 

Separate notifications have been made with regard to LTIS awards made to the
individual directors noted above.

 

Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification.

 

IAN JOHNSON, COMPANY SECRETARY.