My father, Philip Kraven, who has died aged 92, was an information technology specialist who worked for two big oil companies – Britoil and BP – developing and managing their computer software.
Philip had begun in oil exploration as a consultant geophysicist for Seismograph Service Ltd in the late 1950s. He soon switched over to working on IT during the early days of computers, initially using his knowledge of exploration techniques to develop data processing and programming systems that would support geophysical investigations.
