Director Shareholding

Wood Group (John) PLC
24 June 2005

RNS ANNOUNCEMENT - 24 June 2005


John Wood Group PLC ('Company')


The Company was informed that on 22 June 2005, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC Employee Share Trust (the 'EST'):



•  sold 110,443 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
£1.6925 per share, being 0.0225% of the share capital of the Company;  and



•  transferred 189,557 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company
at a consideration, of 17 1/3 pence per share being 0.0387% 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 20,746,591 ordinary
shares representing 4.237% 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, GROUP HEAD OF LEGAL AND COMPANY SECRETARY.






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