Applied Earth & Infrastructure Intelligence for the Energy Transition
Where Subsurface Insight Meets Energy Reality.
Applied Earth & Infrastructure Intelligence for the Energy Transition
Where Subsurface Insight Meets Energy Reality.
About Rockwise LLC
Our Mission
About RockWise
RockWise is built on a simple premise: the hardest energy problems are not surface problems.
They live underground — in geology, heat, pressure, materials, and infrastructure decisions that compound over decades. Whether the challenge is carbon storage, geothermal development, or energy systems strained by new demands, progress depends on understanding what lies beneath and acting with discipline.
RockWise provides applied subsurface intelligence for the energy transition. The work sits at the intersection of geoscience, engineering, and systems thinking — translating complex subsurface realities into decisions that developers, operators, and investors can stand behind. RockWise is built for investors and operators confronting technically messy assets, incomplete data, and irreversible decisions.
The perspective behind RockWise is shaped by decades of field and leadership experience across energy, geoscience, oceanography, and communications systems. That experience brings a respect for constraints, a bias toward evidence over optimism, and an understanding that credibility is earned by getting hard things right — quietly and consistently.
RockWise is not a volume consultancy, and it is not a thought-leadership platform. It exists to support serious work: projects where uncertainty matters, where capital is at risk, and where long-term outcomes outweigh short-term narratives.
The energy transition will not be solved by slogans or speed alone. It will be built by people willing to look deeper, think clearly, and move deliberately.
That is the work RockWise is here to do.
Petrophysical screening, reservoir modeling, and fairway mapping for CCUS and geothermal projects along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Led by Jeff D. Kelley — Geoscientist–Engineer with 20+ years across subsurface development, defense systems, and offshore operations.