Oxy needs to find a sucker like VTLE to over pay what a property may actually be worth now... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/occidental-explores-sale-permian-assets-152814126.html High interest rates, low natural gas prices, and falling oil prices mean they made need to offer an owner financed deal to get a sale done... VTLE surge on shorts to 34% of the float shows they can do it... https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VTLE/key-statistics Back at 22% short on float used to make me wonder... So we watch...LJ