Larry Lake (engineer)

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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.

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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

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] .

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Larry W. Lake" (PDF). University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 25, 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  2. 1 2 "UT Larry W. Lake's Faculty Page". University of Texas at Austin. 3 August 2010. Archived from the original on June 8, 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  3. ↑ Lake, Larry W. (2007), Petroleum Engineering Handbook, Society of Petroleum Engineers, ISBN   978-1555631260
  4. ↑ Statistics for Petroleum Engineers and Geoscientists, Elsevier
  5. ↑ Lake, Larry W.; Bryant, Steven Lawrence; Bryant, Steven L.; Araque-Martinez, Aura N. (2002), Geochemistry and Fluid Flow, Gulf Professional Publishing, Gulf Professional, ISBN   9780444505699
  6. ↑ Walsh, Mark P.; Lake, Larry W. (2003), A Generalized Approach To Primary Hydrocarbon Recovery Of Petroleum Exploration & Production, Volume 4, Elsevier Science, Elsevier Science, ISBN   0444506837
  7. ↑ Reservoir Characterization II: Conference Proceedings, Academic Press, Academic Press, 2 December 2012
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