Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

  

The Company was informed that on 5 October 2006, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust ("EST"):

  * sold 16,882 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £2.2575 per
    share, being 0.00326% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to an
    exercise of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2000 Approved and
    Unapproved Executive Share Option Scheme;
   
  * transferred 30,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 93â…“ pence per share, being 0.0058% 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 Unapproved Executive Share
    Option Scheme;
   
  * transferred 53,076 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 17â…“ pence per share, being 0.0102% 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 6,250 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 158 pence per share, being 0.0012% 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 Approved and Unapproved
    Executive Share Option Scheme; and
   
  * transferred 4,760 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 3â…“ pence per share, being 0.00092% of the share capital of
    the Company, to employees of the Company, and its subsidiaries, exercising
    share options under the John Wood Group PLC (No 1) 2003 Long Term Retention
    Plan.
   
Following this transaction, the EST holds a total of 19,160,218 ordinary shares
representing 3.70% 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, Trevor M Noble 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 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.