Re Contract

Wood Group (John) PLC
14 September 2004

14 September 2004

          WOOD GROUP ENGINEERING (NORTH SEA) RE-AWARDED SHELL CONTRACT

Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Ltd, part of John Wood Group PLC ('Wood
Group'), has been reappointed by Shell U.K. Limited (Shell) to provide
engineering design, maintenance, support and construction services (EMSC) to its
onshore assets at St Fergus Gas Plant, Fife FNGL Plant at Mossmorran, Fife
Braefoot Bay Terminal plus offshore support for the Goldeneye platform. The 3
facilities process Natural Gas Liquids coming from offshore facilities into
higher value components such as Methane and Ethane.

The contract, worth approximately £25million over two years, will secure
employment for around 200 Wood Group employees at Shell's three onshore sites
and in Aberdeen.

Les Thomas, Group Director responsible for Production Facilities said, 'Wood
Group is delighted to have been re-awarded this significant onshore contract.
Shell's decision to reappoint the Group is testimony to our safety record, plus
our technical and cost management skills.'

Commenting on the contract extension Mark Pattenden, Operations Manager for
Northern Systems and Plants, said: 'Shell is committed to the North Sea as a
strategic heartland, and this means we will continue to improve our safety and
efficiency across all operations. We aim to ensure this contract extension is
one of the factors that will allow us to meet these challenges.'

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Notes to editors:

Wood Group is an international energy services company with $2.0bn sales,
employing more than 13,000 people worldwide and operating in 34 countries.  The
Group has three businesses-Engineering & Production Facilities, Well Support,
and Gas Turbine Services-providing a range of engineering, production support,
maintenance management and industrial gas turbine overhaul and repair services
to the oil & gas, and power generation industries worldwide.

Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) is an international contracting organisation
providing technically and commercially innovative solutions for the management,
operations, maintenance, engineering, design, modification and decommissioning
of offshore and onshore oil & gas facilities. Wood Group is also a partner of
Sigma 3, a joint venture company set up in 2002 by three oil service companies
to support £750 million of work for Shell in the North Sea.


For further information contact:

Carolyn Smith, Corporate Communications Manager.
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