Larry Lake (engineer)

Larry W. Lake is the Shahid and Sharon Ullah Endowed Chair in petroleum engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.^[1] 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.^[2] He is a world-famous expert in reservoir engineering, geochemistry, fluid flow in porous media and enhanced oil recovery.

Larry was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to quantitative reservoir description and enhanced oil recovery.^[1][2]

He is married to Carole.

Honors

• SPE Honorary Member, 2006-present.
• University of Texas Joe J. King Award for professional service, 2004.
• SPE DeGoyer Award for distinguished service, 2003.
• SPE Distinguished Lecturer, 1994, 2003.
• Texas Society of Professional Engineers Dream Team, 2001.
• SPE Distinguished Member, 1996, 2000.
• SPE Distinguished Service Award, 2000.
• Society of Petroleum Engineering/Department of Energy Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, IOR Pioneer, 2000.
• Claude and Billie Hocott Award, College of Engineering, 1999.
• National Academy of Engineering, 1997.

Books

Lake is the author of the handbook Petroleum Engineering Handbook^[3]

Lake is the coauthor of the textbooks Statistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists ^[4], Geochemistry and Fluid Flow ^[5] and A Generalized Approach to Primary Hydrocarbon Recovery.^[1]

Lake is an editor with M. Walsh of the handbook A Generalized Approach To Primary Hydrocarbon Recovery Of Petroleum Exploration & Production, Volume 4 ^[6] and with T. C. Wesson of Reservoir Characterization II: Conference Proceedings ^[7].