Re Contract

WOOD GROUP (JOHN) PLC - Re Contract

PR Newswire

London, February 8

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HOUSTON, February 11, 2013 - Wood Group Mustang has been awarded the topsidesdetailed engineering and design of an offshore oil & gas production facilitythat will be operated by Det norske. The facility will be located in the IvarAasen field, which is in the North Sea Norwegian Sector. The contract wasawarded to Wood Group Mustang by SMOE, the Singapore-based engineering,procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the project.

The facility will be located in 112 meters (367 feet) of water The topsides isscheduled to have an approximate dry weight of 13,700 tonnes, including flareand 70-bed living quarters. This significant award will require peak staff ofapproximately 200 people, and the project will be performed in the London andKuala Lumpur offices of Wood Group Mustang, with London taking the lead role.

Steve Knowles, president of Wood Group Mustang, commented, "Receiving news ofthis project award was extremely gratifying. We are looking forward to startingwork on Det norske's first major facility and developing an excellentrelationship with them, in addition to enhancing our existing relationship withSMOE."

Wood Group Mustang is a global project management, engineering, procurement,and construction operations company serving the upstream oil and gas, refiningand chemicals, pipeline, automation and control, and industrial markets. WoodGroup Mustang has offices in North America, South America, Europe, Middle East,Asia & Africa. For more information, visit www.mustangeng.com.

Wood Group is an international energy services company with $6bn sales,employing more than 42,000 people worldwide and operating in 50 countries. TheGroup has three businesses - Engineering, Wood Group PSN and Wood Group GTS -providing a range of engineering, production support, maintenance managementand industrial gas turbine overhaul and repair services to the oil & gas, andpower generation industries worldwide. www.woodgroup.com

For further information contact:

Dena Lee, Director - Communications, Wood Group Mustang

Tel: +1 713 215 8315, email: [email protected]

Pauline Morrice, Senior Corporate Communications Advisor, Wood GroupTel: +44 (0) 1224 373009, email: [email protected]