Excited states in the proton-unbound nucleus p>151p>Lu have been established using ¦Ã-ray coincidence techniques. The lifetime of the first excited state above the proton-emitting ground state has been measured using the recoil-distance Doppler-shift method combined with recoil-decay tagging. The experimental level scheme and extracted lifetime have been compared with state-of-the-art theoretical calculations based upon a non-adiabatic deformed Woods-Saxon potential. This comparison suggests that the proton-emitting ground state in p>151p>Lu is mildly oblate with a deformation and represents the best evidence to date for proton emission from an oblate nucleus.