Kehinde Oluwatoyin Ladipo

Kehinde Oluwatoyin Ladipo is a Nigerian geologist and geoscientist with over 45 years of professional and scholarly practice, specialising in sedimentology, clastic basin analysis, and the hydrocarbon potential of Nigeria's frontier basins.

Education

Ladipo began his academic career in Nigeria before completing doctoral research on the Upper Coal Measures of South Wales. His first publication, on syn-sedimentary growth faults of the Coal Measures, appeared in the journal Nature. Following his retirement from Shell, he founded the Centre of Excellence in Geosciences and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Benin, Nigeria. He subsequently served as a senior consultant and adviser to Lekoil Nigeria Limited's geoscience department, providing expertise in asset valuation and exploration strategies.

Recognition

In January 2015, Ladipo was elected a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science at the Academy's Annual General Meeting. In November 2024, he received the Aret Adams Award from the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), the highest honour within the NAPE community, in recognition of exceptional lifetime achievement in the geosciences.