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Brendan McKeown

Petroleum engineer;

Born: May 26, 1925; Died: November 16, 2011.

Brendan McKeown, who has died aged 86, was the petroleum engineer credited with bringing ashore the UK's first North Sea oil.

The Belfast-born oilman had already enjoyed a career in Kuwait and Iran when he joined Amoco and the race to find black gold back in Britain.