Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

  

The Company was informed that on 4 January 2007, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC US Employee Share Trust ("US EST"):

  * sold 262,500 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £2.555946 per
    share, being 0.05% 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 15,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 83.333 pence per share, being 0.002% 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 US EST holds a total of 5,482,317 ordinary
shares representing 1.0569% of the share capital of the Company.

The class of discretionary beneficiaries for whom the US EST holds such shares
consists of employees of the Company, including the following executive
directors of the Company: Wendell R Brooks and Alan G Semple. Each of such
directors is accordingly deemed to be beneficially interested in the shares
held by the US EST.

The transaction noted above does 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.