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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 21. 5th September 1973

Oil development

Oil development

Duncan Simpson, 26, joined BP in 1969 after obtaining a B.Sc in chemistry at Victoria University. He worked in the company's laboratory at Lower Hutt and has also spent some time as a sales representative up in the north. In 1973 he was posted to London where he is attached to the industrial lubricants section of Technical Services Branch in which he is working on special lubricants for jet engines. This is the group that developed the oil for the Concorde's engines.

Duncan's visit to the United Kingdom is something of a home-coming because he was born in Scotland. "We are drunk with power" he says, "because we can send home advance news about Coronation Street."