Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

  

The Company was informed that on 24 May 2007, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust ("EST"):

  * transferred 75,676 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 83.333 pence per share, being 0.0145% 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
   
  * sold 6,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £3.091177 per
    share, being 0.0011% 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;
   
  * sold 16,500 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £3.080354 per
    share, being 0.0031% 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;
   
  * sold 2,024 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £3.095 per
    share, being 0.0003% 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;
   
and on 25 May 2007

  * sold 60,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £3.10 per
    share, being 0.0115% 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;
   
Following this transaction, the EST holds a total of 15,825,708 ordinary shares
representing 3.033% 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 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.