Sanchez Energy Corporation, an independent exploration and production company, focuses on the acquisition, exploration, and development of unconventional oil and natural gas resources. It has approximately 39,000 net leasehold acres in the oil and condensate, or black oil and volatile oil, windows of the Eagle Ford Shale in Gonzales, Zavala, and Frio counties of South Texas; approximately 1,500 net acres in the Haynesville Shale in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana; and approximately 82,000 net acres in Lewis and Clark, Meagher, and Cascade counties of Montana. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.