Larry W. Lake is the Shahid and Sharon Ullah Endowed Chair in petroleum engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
[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.
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].