The UK has a world class knowledge base and we hope that the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering will re-invigorate interest and passion in engineering that will make the most of what we already have and build on it.

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He moved back to the company's base in London and held a series of finance jobs, wedding his knowledge of petroleum engineering to the discipline of return on investment.

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