Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

  

The Company has been informed that on 17 October 2007, the Trustees of the John
Wood Group PLC Employee Share Trust ("EST"):

  * sold 12,500 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £4.195 per
    share, being 0.0023% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
    exercises of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2002 (No 1)
    Executive Share Option Scheme;
   
  * transferred 1,203 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 158 pence per share, being 0.0019% of the share capital of
    the Company, to employees of the Company, and its subsidiaries, exercising
    share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2002 (No 1) Executive Share
    Option Scheme;
   
and on 23 October 2007:

  * sold 10,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £4.1125 per
    share, being 0.0019% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
    exercises of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2002 (No 1)
    Executive Share Option Scheme;
   
  * transferred 10,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 158 pence per share, being 0.0019% of the share capital of
    the Company, to employees of the Company, and its subsidiaries, exercising
    share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2002 (No 1) Executive Share
    Option Scheme;
   
Following these transactions, the EST holds a total of 15,203,545 ordinary
shares representing 2.899% 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.