Wood Group director Mark Papworth sold 53,392 shares on Wednesday, less than a week after the engineering services firm said it has seen growth across all its divisions in the first half of its financial year.
Papworth sold the shares, equal to 0.014% of the issued share capital of the company, at 667.00p each, bagging himself a total of £356,125.
Following the transaction, the director holds 118,608 ordinary shares, representing 0.032% of the issued share capital.
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Last week the company cautioned that its downstream operations (building refineries to process oil and gas) are being hit by lower expenditure in the US.
The firm made clear there is a plethora of upstream projects with several of the construction majors including Daewoo, Chevron and Samsung working with Wood Group.
Wood Group PSN, which provides engineering support to existing facilities, is seeing "robust activity levels", while the turbines division, Wood Group GTS, is seeing "good" growth in underlying earnings.
The group has said it is confident of achieving full year performance "in line with expectations".
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Director name: Mr Martin Slabbert
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Amount sold: 53,392 @ 667.00p
Value: £356,125
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Value: £137,721
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