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Overview

Larry W. Lake is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research focuses on engineering, with a primary emphasis on subfields such as ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, mechanics of materials, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's work covers key topics, including:

  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Oil and Gas Production Techniques
  • Drilling and Well Engineering

Recent papers by Larry W. Lake include:

  • On the sustainability of CO2 storage through CO2 - Enhanced oil recovery, 2020, Applied Energy
  • Comparison of permeability predictions on cemented sandstones with physics-based and machine learning approaches, 2020, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
  • Multiscale spatial analysis of fracture arrangement and pattern reconstruction using Ripley's K-function, 2022, Journal of Structural Geology
  • Buoyant Flow of H2 Vs. CO2 in Storage Aquifers: Implications to Geological Screening, 2023, SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering
  • The Physical Meaning of the Koval Factor, 2020, Mathematical Geosciences

Larry W. Lake frequently collaborates with several coauthors. Notable collaborators include:

  • Mark P. Walsh
  • Leopoldo M. Ruiz Maraggi
  • Frank Male
  • Jerry L. Jensen
  • Michael J. Pyrcz

The scientist has contributed extensively to publications in venues such as:

  • SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition
  • SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering
  • SPE Journal
  • Geoenergy Science and Engineering
  • Proceedings of the 9th Unconventional Resources Technology Conference

Best Publications

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery

    Larry W. Lake

  • Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery

    LW Lake;RT Johns;WR Rossen;GA Pope

  • Reservoir Simulation of CO 2 Storage in Aquifers

    Ajitabh Kumar;Myeong H. Noh;Robin C. Ozah;Gary A. Pope

  • Reservoir Simulation of CO2 Storage in Deep Saline Aquifers

    A. Kumar;M. Noh;G.A. Pope;K. Sepehrnoori

  • A Capacitance Model To Infer Interwell Connectivity From Production and Injection Rate Fluctuations

    Ali A. Yousef;Pablo H. Gentil;Jerry L. Jensen;Larry W. Lake

  • Inferring Interwell Connectivity Only From Well-Rate Fluctuations in Waterfloods

    Alejandro Albertoni;Larry W. Lake

  • Dispersion and Reservoir Heterogeneity

    Atul Arya;Tom A. Hewett;Ronald G. Larson;Larry W. Lake

  • Stability of aqueous silica nanoparticle dispersions

    Cigdem O. Metin;Larry W Lake;Caetano R. Miranda;Quoc Phuc Nguyen

  • A New Approach to Shale Management in Field-Scale Models

    Helge H. Haldorsen;Larry W. Lake

  • The use of capacitance–resistance models for rapid estimation of waterflood performance and optimization

    M. Sayarpour;M. Sayarpour;E. Zuluaga;C.S. Kabir;Larry W. Lake

  • Scaling immiscible flow through permeable media by inspectional analysis

    Mike Shook;Dachang Li;Larry W Lake

  • Reservoir Characterization II

    Larry W. Lake;Herbert B. Carroll;Thomas C. Wesson

  • Estimation of Single-Phase Permeability from Parameters of Particle-Size Distribution

    Manmath N. Panda;Larry W. Lake

  • Production Forecasting with Logistic Growth Models

    Aaron James Clark;Larry Wayne Lake;Tadeusz Wiktor Patzek

  • Pattern analysis of dune-field parameters

    Ryan C. Ewing;Gary Kocurek;Larry W. Lake

  • Precipitation and dissolution of solids attending flow through porous media

    M. P. Walsh;S. L. Bryant;R. S. Schechter;L. W. Lake

  • On the sustainability of CO2 storage through CO2 – Enhanced oil recovery

    R. Farajzadeh;A.A. Eftekhari;G. Dafnomilis;L.W. Lake

  • A Coreflood Investigation of Low-Salinity Enhanced Oil Recovery

    Scott M Rivet;Larry W. Lake;Gary A Pope

  • A theoretical and experimental analysis of minipermeameter response including gas slippage and high velocity flow effects

    David J. Goggin;Richard L. Thrasher;Larry W. Lake

  • Stochastic Reservoir Modeling Using Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithm

    M.K. Sen;Akhil Datta-Gupta;P.L. Stoffa;L.W. Lake

  • Reservoir heterogeneities and their influence on ultimate recovery.

    Thomas J. Lasseter;John R. Waggoner;Larry W. Lake

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Bryant
Steven L. Bryant University of Calgary
Gary A. Pope
Gary A. Pope The University of Texas at Austin
Jerry L. Jensen
Jerry L. Jensen The University of Texas at Austin
Russell T. Johns
Russell T. Johns Pennsylvania State University
Gary Kocurek
Gary Kocurek The University of Texas at Austin
Kamy Sepehrnoori
Kamy Sepehrnoori The University of Texas at Austin
Mojdeh Delshad
Mojdeh Delshad The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas F. Edgar
Thomas F. Edgar The University of Texas at Austin
Leon S. Lasdon
Leon S. Lasdon The University of Texas at Austin
Akhil Datta-Gupta
Akhil Datta-Gupta Texas A&M University

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