Larry W. Lake is the Shahid and Sharon Ullah Endowed Chair in petroleum engineering at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

. 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 Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in t ...

and a Ph.D. from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranked among the top universit ...

, both in

chemical engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials in ...

. He is a world-famous expert in

reservoir engineering Reservoir engineering is a branch of petroleum engineering that applies scientific principles to the fluid flow through porous medium during the development and production of oil and gas reservoirs so as to obtain a high economic recovery. The wo ...

geochemistry Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans. The realm of geochemistry extends beyond the Earth, encompassing the ...

, fluid flow in porous media and

enhanced oil recovery Enhanced oil recovery (abbreviated EOR), also called tertiary recovery, is the extraction of crude oil from an oil field that cannot be extracted otherwise. EOR can extract 30% to 60% or more of a reservoir's oil, compared to 20% to 40% using ...

. Larry was elected a member of the

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of ...

in 1997 for contributions to quantitative reservoir description and enhanced oil recovery. 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. *

, 1997.

Books

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'' .

References

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