Archive for June, 2009

Turkmenistan’s Search For New Energy Partners
June 18th, 2009

Via Stratfor (subscription required), interesting analysis of Turkmenistan’s increasingly desperate efforts to diversify its energy partnerships beyond Russia which recently cut off its imports of Turkmen natural gas, halving Turkmenistan’s income.  As the article notes: “…Turkmenistan is the only Central Asian state that is self-sufficient in both energy supplies and electricity production. The country currently […]

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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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