Should the West Pursue the New Trans Caspian Energy Project?
July 6th, 2007
Enjoyed Vasili Rukhadze’s interesting thoughts on a very strategic issue. You can read his entire article here at Neweurasia.net but, based on his analysis and my own experience in Kazahkstan in the late ’90s, believe his conclusions are very much on the mark: Pursuing the Trans Caspian Energy Project is well worth the investment. A […]
Read more »Behind the Name…
July 6th, 2007
Why did I name this blog: Wildcats and Black Sheep? Wildcats draws it origin from wildcatting (in the petroleum / natural resource sense) and also has an implicit reference to the Asian “tiger†economies that have – for so long – been defined as successful models of economic development. Clearly, some of the resource-based emerging […]
Read more »Welcome
July 6th, 2007
Having traveled extensively around our ever shrinking globe and possessing a keen interest in business, investment, and economic development of emerging economies, it is my pleasure to introduce Wildcats & Black Sheep – The New Seven Sisters and Other Maverick Investment Opportunities, a new blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.