The Fort Worth Basin of north-central Texas is a prolific petroleum basin that is increasingly seismically active, with over 125 earthquakes of magnitude Mw ≥2.5 since 2006, impacting the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area and surrounding communities. These earthquakes have been attributed to increased pore fluid pressure from wastewater injection and from cross-fault pore pressure imbalance caused by injection and production.

Deepwater slope deposits in the Virgilian- Wolfcampian Cisco Group in Lake Trammel South field in Nolan County, Texas, have produced oil and gas since the early 1950’s. Nevertheless, the field and adjacent areas have the potential for additional development. Many lenticular and discontinuous reservoir-sandstone bodies in the field have not been adequately contacted by existing wells.