Emplacement of the Little Minch Sill Complex, Sea of Hebrides Basin, NW Scotland

Acknowledgements The work contained in this paper contains work conducted during a PhD study undertaken as part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Oil & Gas [grant number RG12649-12] and is fully funded by NERC whose support is gratefully acknowledged. We are also grateful to IHS Markit for provision of, and permission to publish an example from their 2D seismic data volumes and gravity and magnetics database, and to Schlumberger for the donation of Petrel seismic interpretation software licences to Aberdeen University. We acknowledge the UKOilandGasData.com website owned by UK National Data Repository administered by Schlumberger, for access to the seismic data volumes and released UK well database. Stephen Jones and Thomas Phillips are thanked for considered and constructive reviews which helped improved and broaden the appeal of the paper. Stephen Daly is thanked for giving helpful editorial steer and comments on how to improve paper. Funding This work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (RG12649-12). Dougal Jerram is partly supported by the Research Council of Norway through its Center of Excellence funding scheme, project 223272 (CEED)Peer reviewedPostprin

Power and Narrative in Project Management: Lessons Learned in Recognising the Importance of Phronesis

A component part of modern project management practice is the ‘lessons learned’ activity that is designed to transfer experience and best practice from one project to another, thus improving the practice of project management. The departure point for this thesis is: If we are learning lessons from our experiences in project management, then why are we not better at managing projects? It is widely cited in most project management literature that 50–70% of all projects fail for one reason or another, a figure that has steadfastly refused to improve over many years. My contention is that the current rational approach to understanding lessons learned in project management, one entrenched in the if–then causality of first-order systems thinking where the nature of movement is a ‘corrective repetition of the past in order to realise an optimal future state’ (Stacey 2011: 301), does not reflect the actual everyday experience of organisational life. I see this as an experience of changing priorities, competing initiatives, unrealistic timescales, evaporation of resources, non-rational decisions based on power relations between actors in the organisations we find ourselves in; and every other manner of challenge that presents itself in modern large commercial organisations. I propose a move away from what I see as the current reductionist view of lessons learned, with its emphasis on objective observation, to one of involved subjective understanding. This is an understanding rooted in the particular experience of the individual acting into the social, an act that necessarily changes both the individual and the social. My contention is that a narrative approach to sense making as first-order abstractions in the activity of lessons learned within project management is what is required if we are to better learn from our experiences. This narrative approach that I have termed ‘thick simplification’ supports learning by enabling the reader of the lessons learned account to situate the ‘lesson learned’ within their own experience through treating the lessons learned as a potential future understanding .This requires a different view of what is going on between people in organisations – one that challenges the current reliance on detached process and recognises the importance of embedded phronesis, the Aristotelian virtue of practical judgement. It is an approach that necessarily ‘focuses attention directly on patterns of human relating, and asks what kind of power relations, ideology and communication they reflect’ (Stacey 2007: 266)

Understanding volcanic facies in the subsurface : a combined core, wireline logging and image log data set from the PTA2 and KMA1 boreholes, Big Island, Hawaii

Data availability. A digital archive of core photos and detailed core run depth log information is available at https://www.higp.hawaii.edu/hggrc/projects/humuula-groundwater-research-project/(HGGRS, 2019). The down-hole data are published with a digital object identifier via GFZ Data Services (Kück, 2019). Acknowledgements. This project was made possible by the collaborative outlook of the main partners (VBPR and DougalEARTH, GFZ, and the University of Hawai‘i) and the extensive background work undertaken by the researchers at the Hawai‘i Groundwater and Geothermal Resources Center (University of Hawai‘i) and from the HGRP project. Jehanne Paris is thanked for helping organize the logging operations and helping in the field. Martin Töpfer and Marco Groh (Operational Support Group, OSG, of ICDP, GFZ) are thanked for ensuring the smooth running of the logging operations. Dougal Jerram and Sverre Planke are also supported by the Research Council of Norway, through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme, project 223272 at CEED, University of Oslo. We would like to thank Breno Waichel and John Shervais for constructive reviews and the editorial team at Scientific Drilling for their prompt handling and meticulous guidance through the various stages from submission to publication.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Inside the volcano : Three-dimensional magmatic architecture of a buried shield volcano

Acknowledgements: Funding from NERC (Oil and Gas CDT) and BGS is gratefully acknowledged. DAJ and SP are part-funded by the Research Council of Norway Centre of Excellence funding scheme (project No. 223272). TGS is thanked for providing seismic data to the University of Aberdeen. Seismic interpretation was undertaken using Schlumberger Petrel software and gravity modelling using ARK CLS XField software. Thanks go to Steffi Burchardt, Eric Horsman and Christian Eide for constructive reviews which greatly improved the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The pre-breakup stratigraphy and petroleum system of the Southern Jan Mayen Ridge revealed by seafloor sampling

The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution from the vessel’s crew (captain I. Rasmussen) and operator (Thor Ltd), the two surveyors (K. Høysæth and H.B. Bortne), and two sampling assistants (F. Gausepohl and A.-M. Voelsch). Sverre Planke and Dougal Jerram are partly funded through a Norwegian Research Council Centers of Excellence project (project number 223272, CEED). Adriano Mazzini is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme Grant agreement n° 308126 (LUSI LAB project, PI A. Mazzini). TGS and VBPR funded the cruise and allowed the publication of the data and interpretation. Steve Killops from APT refined our interpretation of the biomarker data. The reviewers and the editor are also thanked for their constructive comments. Finally, this article is dedicated to the biostratigrapher Haavard Selnes who sadly passed away in 2015.Peer reviewedPostprin

Igneous seismic geomorphology of buried lava fields and coastal escarpments on the Vøring volcanic rifted margin

Voluminous igneous complexes are commonly present in sedimentary basins on volcanic rifted margins, and they represent a challenge for petroleum explorationists. A 2500 km2 industry-standard 3D seismic cube has recently been acquired on the Vøring Marginal High offshore mid-Norway to image subbasalt sedimentary rocks. This cube also provides a unique opportunity for imaging top- and intrabasalt structures. Detailed seismic geomorphological interpretation of the top-basalt horizon, locally calibrated with high-resolution P-Cable wide-azimuth data, reveals new insight into the late-stage development of the volcanic flow fields and the kilometer-high coastal Vøring Escarpment. Subaerial lava flows with compressional ridges and inflated lava lobes cover the marginal high, with a comparable structure and size to modern subaerial lava fields. Pitted surfaces, likely formed by lava emplaced in a wet environment, are present in the western part of the study area near the continent-ocean boundary. The prominent Vøring Escarpment formed when eastward-flowing lava reached the coastline. The escarpment morphology is influenced by preexisting structural highs, and these highs are locally bypassed by the lava. Volcanogenic debris flows are well-imaged on the escarpment horizon, along with large-scale large slump blocks. Similar features exist in active volcanic environments, e.g., on the south coast of Hawaii. Numerous postvolcanic extensional faults and incised channels cut into the marginal high and the escarpment, and we found that the area was geologically active after the volcanism ceased. In summary, igneous seismic geomorphology and seismic volcanostratigraphy are two very powerful methods to understand the volcanic deposits and development of rifted margins. Our study demonstrates great promise for further understanding the igneous development of offshore basins as more high-quality 3D seismic data become available

3D structure and formation of hydrothermal vent complexes at the Paleocene-Eocene transition, the Møre Basin, mid-Norwegian margin

Acknowledgments We thank Statoil for providing us with the PL251 (Tulipan) geophysical and geologic reports for well 6302/6- 1. We thank NORSAR for the free academic use of the SeisRox software during the modeling procedures and to Schlumberger for the free academic use of Petrel 2015. Spectral decomposition was carried out using FFA Geoteric software at the University of Aberdeen. FFA are thanked for donation of the software license to the University of Aberdeen. The authors further acknowledge the support from the Research Council of Norway through its Center of Excellence funding scheme, project 223272 (CEED), and from the MIMES project (grant no. 244155). We also gratefully acknowledge the support by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Oslo to TS. Clayton Grove and Craig Magee are thanked for their many insightful comments and suggestions that helped improve the paper substantially.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Characterization of volcanic reservoirs; insights from the Badejo and Linguado oil field, Campos Basin, Brazil

Funding Information: This work was financially supported by Petrobras (CENPES – Research Center and Exploration) projects. Especially the authors of Petrobras appreciate the fruitful discussions with the VMAPP Consortium (Volcanic Margin Petroleum Prospectivity) team and workshops. The authors would like to thank also all those who contributed in some way to make this work possible. Dougal A. Jerram and Sverre Plank acknowledge the support from the Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence funding scheme, project 22372 (CEED).Peer reviewedPostprin