Larry Lake (engineer)


Larry W. Lake is the Shahid and Sharon Ullah Endowed Chair in petroleum engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He has served on the faculty of the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering since 1978. He obtained a B.S.E. from Arizona State University and a Ph.D. from Rice University, both in chemical engineering. He is a world-famous expert in reservoir engineering, geochemistry, fluid flow in porous media and enhanced oil recovery. Larry Lake is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is married to Carole.

Honors

Lake is the author of the handbook Petroleum Engineering Handbook
Lake is the coauthor of the textbooks Statistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists, Geochemistry and Fluid Flow and A Generalized Approach to Primary Hydrocarbon Recovery.
Lake is an editor with M. Walsh of the handbook A Generalized Approach To Primary Hydrocarbon Recovery Of Petroleum Exploration & Production, Volume 4 and with T. C. Wesson of Reservoir Characterization II: Conference Proceedings.