Sanchez Energy Corporation, an independent exploration and production company, focuses on the acquisition, exploration, and development of unconventional oil and natural gas resources in the onshore U.S. Gulf Coast. It has approximately 226,000 net leasehold acres in the oil and condensate, or black oil and volatile oil, windows of the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas; and approximately 69,000 net leasehold acres in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale in Mississippi and Louisiana. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.