Director/PDMR Shareholding

Wood Group (John) PLC
11 July 2005

RNS ANNOUNCEMENT -  11 July 2005

John Wood Group PLC ('Company')

The Company was informed that on 6 July 2005, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust (the 'EST'):

•        sold 30,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a £1.87516
per share, being 0.0061% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
exercises of 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').

And further

The Company was informed that on 7 July 2005, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust (the 'EST'):

•        sold 30,000 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a £1.8774
per share, being 0.061% of the share capital of the Company;  and

•        transferred 173,076 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
consideration, of 17 1/3 pence per share being 0.0353% 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 EST holds a total of 19,955,629 ordinary
shares representing 4.0759% 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, Wendell R Brooks, Alan G Semple,
Trevor M Noble and Leslie J Thomas.  Each of such directors is accordingly
deemed to be beneficially interested in all of such shares held by the EST.

Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification.

IAN JOHNSON, COMPANY SECRETARY.






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