Director Shareholding

Wood Group (John) PLC
29 June 2005

RNS ANNOUNCEMENT - 29 June 2005



John Wood Group PLC ('Company')



The Company was informed that on 27 June 2005, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC US Employee Share Trust (the 'US EST'):


•    sold 6,047 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at an average
     price of £1.7236 per share, being 0.0012% of the share capital of the 
     Company; and


•    transferred 98,953 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a
     consideration of 17 1/3 pence per share, being 0.0202% 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 US EST holds a total of 2,160,000 ordinary
shares representing 0.4411% of the share capital of the Company.

The class of discretionary beneficiaries for whom the US EST holds such shares
consists of employees of the Company, including the following executive
directors of the Company: Wendell R Brooks and Alan G Semple.  Each of such
directors is accordingly deemed to be beneficially interested in all of such
shares held by the US EST.



Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification.

IAN JOHNSON, GROUP HEAD OF LEGAL AND COMPANY SECRETARY.



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