We are excited to welcome Rocco (Rocky) Detomo as the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at DIBIJ Energy, effective April 7, 2025.
Rocco (Rocky) Detomo received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from The Ohio State University in 1973 and 1975, respectively. He served as an experimental research associate at the Ohio State University Van de Graaff Accelerator Laboratory, where he received his Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear Physics in 1981.
Rocky then joined Shell Western E&P as a geophysicist, where he supervised land acquisition and seismic processing teams and interpreted onshore seismic data in the continental and western United States.
From 1991 until 2005, Rocky was based in New Orleans, managing and interpreting for Shell Offshore, Inc. and Shell International E&P in the Gulf of Mexico, focusing on subsalt and structurally complex, technically challenging areas. He was the lead geophysical interpreter for a number of Shell’s subsalt developments until he returned to Houston to lead Global Deep Water Exploration Evaluation and Quantitative Integrated Evaluation Capability Deployment. He also served as Shell’s Gulf of Mexico Exploration Seismic Manager.
In 2008, Rocky moved to Lagos, Nigeria, where he served as Head of Reservoir Geophysics/Quantitative Interpretation for Shell in Sub-Saharan Africa.
He is the recipient of the Houston Geological Society 1997 Best Paper of the Year, co-recipient of the 1997 A.I. Levorsen Award for GCAGS Best Paper, and Shell’s 1991 President’s Award. Rocky has also served as President of the Southeastern Geophysical Society, Technical Program Chairman for the 2006 SEG Annual Meeting, Chairman of the SEG Travel Grants Committee, and is a Trustee Associate of the SEG Foundation. He is a member of EAGE, APS, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Who’s Who in Teaching in America.
Reflecting on this appointment, Ibim Diri, CEO at DIBIJ Energy Limited, said:
“We are fortunate to have Rocky as a great addition to the team. His skill set and experiences will be instrumental to the realization of the ambitious plans we have set out in the energy industry globally.”
