Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")

  

The Company was informed that on 15 June 2007, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust ("EST"):

  * transferred 6,667 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;
   
  * transferred 2,708 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 128.5 pence per share, being 0.0005% 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 Unapproved
    Executive Share Option Scheme;
   
  * transferred 6,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
    consideration of 83.333 pence per share, being 0.0011% 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 150,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at £3.1121 per
    share, being 0.0287% 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 15,655,833 ordinary shares
representing 3.0007% 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 include one transaction by Allister Langlands,
full details concerning that transaction and the effect on his holdings has
been notified separately. The other transactions 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.