Greenland’s Nunaoil: Potential To Become A Future New Seven Sister?
October 13th, 2009
Via The Atlantic, a brief look at Greenland’s potential to become – in the longer term – home to a new, new seven sister: Nunaoil. As the article notes: “…Aqqaluk Lynge has a recurring nightmare: “When I’m lying awake at night, I pray we don’t find oil.” That anxiety puts Lynge, the president of Greenland’s […]
Read more »Nord Stream Leading To Continental Divide?
October 13th, 2009
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on the ambitious Nord Stream pipeline planned to run along the bed of the Baltic Sea, the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom is driving a political wedge between Eastern and Western Europe. As the article notes: While the Russian-German pipeline offers clear energy benefits to Western Europe, […]
Read more »Russia Gives China Gas
October 13th, 2009
Via The New York Times, news that Gazprom signed a general trade agreement with China National Petroleum Corporation during a state visit by Russian officials. As the article notes: “…The deal calls for the supply of nearly 2.5 trillion cubic feet of gas per year via two potential routes originating from Siberia. China has one […]
Read more »Dialing For Dollars In Iran
October 9th, 2009
Courtesy of The New York Times, an interesting look at a special type of investment in Iran, namely the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ recent takeover of a majority share in the nation’s telecommunications monopoly. As the article notes: “…The nearly $8 billion acquisition by a company affiliated with the elite force has amplified concerns in […]
Read more »China: Interested In Mining North Korea’s Mineral Wealth
October 7th, 2009
Via The Financial Times, a report that China aims to gain access to North Korea’s mineral wealth. As the article notes: “… if resource-hungry China hopes revived camaraderie will also grant it a large bite of North Korea’s massive untapped mineral wealth, analysts and diplomats warn, Beijing could be sorely disappointed. North Korea’s mineral wealth […]
Read more »Turkmenistan: Market Diversification
October 4th, 2009
Via Bloomberg, a report that Turkmenistan’s willingness to ship natural gas to European partners if they build a pipeline across the Caspian Sea to transport fuel westward. As the article notes: “…We’ll be happy to work with European partners, should they choose to build a pipeline to our border,” Yagshigeldy Kakaev, director of state-run gas […]
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.