Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS ANNOUNCEMENT - 1 February 2006

John Wood Group PLC ('Company')

 
The Company was informed that on 26 January 2006, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC US Employee Share Trust (the 'US EST'):

  * sold 4,896 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at price of £2.395
    per share, being 0.0009% of the share capital of the Company; and
   
  * transferred 62,604 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 17â…“ pence per share, being 0.0121% 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 Executive Share
    Option Scheme and the John Wood Group PLC 2000 Unapproved Executive Share
    Option Scheme (together 'Schemes').
   
Following these transactions, the US EST holds a total of 1,248,750 ordinary
shares representing 0.242% 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 all of such
shares held by the US EST.

The transactions noted above do not involve any of the named executive
directors or any persons discharging managerial responsibility.

Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification.

IAN JOHNSON, COMPANY SECRETARY.