Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

  

The Company has been informed that on 16 July 2007, the Trustees of the John
Wood Group PLC Employee Share Trust ("EST"):

  * sold 149 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £3.376818 per
    share, being 0.000002% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
    exercises of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2003 Long Term
    Retention Plan;
   
  * transferred 14,866 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 3.333 pence per share, being 0.0028% of the share capital
    of the Company, to employees of the Company, and its subsidiaries,
    exercising share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2003 Long Term
    Retention Plan;
   
  * sold 33,125 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £3.376818 per
    share, being 0.0063% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
    exercises of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2000 Approved and
    Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme
   
  * transferred 33,873 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 83.333 pence per share, being 0.0064% 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 and
    Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme;
   
  * transferred 11,287 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 158 pence per share, being 0.0021% 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 and Unapproved
    Executive Share Option Scheme;
   
  * transferred 14,436 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 128.5 pence per share, being 0.0027% 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 and
    Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme;
   
  * transferred 4,154 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 145 pence per share, being 0.0007% 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 and Unapproved
    Executive Share Option Scheme;
   
Following this transaction, the EST holds a total of 15,921,491 ordinary shares
representing 3.041% 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, Leslie J Thomas and Mark H
Papworth. Each of such directors is accordingly deemed to be beneficially
interested in the shares held by the EST.

The transactions noted above do not involve any of the Company's directors or
any persons discharging managerial responsibility.

  

Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification.

 

IAN JOHNSON, COMPANY SECRETARY.