Occidental wrapped fiscal 2025 by selling its chemicals arm to Berkshire and shrinking into a focused driller. Occidental's Q4 was about subtraction. Adjusted EPS came in at $0.31 on revenue of $5.42 billion, with a $68 million net loss tied to the OxyChem sale. Production beat guidance at 1,481 Mboed, and the Permian carried the quarter.
The May payment, declared April 20, came in at $0.000473 per unit, totaling $5,757 across the entire trust. For context, the January 2026 payment was $0.019386, and as recently as mid 2022, monthly checks ran around $0.10 per unit.
There's an inherent kind of self-denial, the subject of The Handyman of West Texas, identified only as Mickey, said in a recent interview. We all have these thoughts. But we lie to ourselves and try to conform to how you're supposed to be repressing your own pleasure.
Loving County, in northwest Texas, may have the highest trouble-to-resident ratio in the United States. With sixty-four inhabitants, as of the 2020 census, the county is the least populated in the country. Control of its top elected positions-sheriff, judge, constable, county clerk-can be swung by a handful of votes. Many of those vying for power are related to, and estranged from, their opponents. Election results are regularly challenged by the losing candidate, sometimes repeatedly;
