Contango Oil & Gas Company is an independent energy company that focuses on acquiring, exploring, developing, exploiting, and producing crude oil and natural gas properties. The company operates both offshore in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico and onshore in the Texas Gulf Coast and Rocky Mountain regions. As of the end of 2014, it had proven reserves of approximately 275.2 billion cubic feet equivalent, including natural gas, crude oil and condensate, and natural gas liquids. The company was founded in 1986 and is based in Houston, Texas.