Archive for February, 2009

Solving Future European Gas Problems
February 2nd, 2009

Via The Moscow Times, a report on how one owner of RosUkrEnergo would solve future gas problems.  As the article notes: “…Russian, Ukrainian and European investors would each own a third of the company, Firtash said in an interview Saturday. He controls 45 percent of Swiss-registered RosUkrEnergo, the sole importer of gas to Ukraine since […]

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Lukoil’s Prospects….
February 2nd, 2009

Via Fortune Magazine, an interesting article on Lukoil and its future prospects.  As the article notes “…one thing is clear about Lukoil: It’s a company that mirrors Russia right now. Back in the summer it looked as though it was on top of the world. In less than 20 years after a clever young bureaucrat […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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