Greetings, Refusing to chase Hormuz headlines for risk of insanity, I took a wander through the E&P headline of the week: Devon’s record-breaking $2.6 billion Federal Lease buy from the Bureau of Land Management in the prime Permian Delaware Basin, New Mexico. It was a historic sale—sweeping up 16,300 acres at a staggering $161,500 per acre—that triggered me to once again go down a rabbit hole driven by my own interest; sense-checking some old valuation