The Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie in Okla’s Osage County is named for its benefactor, a longtime leader of Tulsa-based Williams you could simply call Joe, and a fierce champion of The Nature Conservancy. Covering 40,000 acres, the Tallgrass Prairie is the world’s largest protected tract of its kind. A magical place, you could say, where herds of bison bellow and roam and wildflowers bloom with abandon, along hiking trails and scenic drives. Tulsa-based Tallgrass Resources might have found inspiration here when naming its E&P company in 2016. And it’s proved rather fitting.

Reese Energy Consulting today is following the latest news from Tallgrass Resources President Chris Bird, which we stumbled upon scrolling through our LI news feed and what a whopper of a story he shares. Tallgrass Resources is a Mid-Continent oil and gas and midstream player with 650+ wells on 38,000 net acres in Osage County, Okla. Its position there has now ballooned.

To quote Bird’s LI post today, “After years of dedicated work alongside the Osage Nation, we recently executed a 530,000-acre concession agreement in Osage County, establishing one of the largest continuous acreage positions in the state.”

The Osage Nation, based in Pawhuska, Okla., is a historic and active oil and gas producer with a tribal mineral ownership. Osage County last year produced 297.1 MBbls of oil and 145.4 MMCF of gas per month.