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.
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].