China’s Dangerous Game: Resource Investment And The Future Of Africa
October 13th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy Association, a review of China’s investment in African natural resources: It was an important day for Angola, June 20th, 2006. Amid the diplomatic pomp and handshakes of an official visit, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opened the Luanda General Hospital and had his picture taken peering into a microscope surrounded by officials in […]
Read more »Oil Diplomacy In The Sudans
October 13th, 2012
Via The Council on Foreign Relations, a detailed look at China’s role in the Sudan-South Sudan negotiations: At the end of September, the presidents of Sudan and South Sudan signed a series of agreements allowing for the resumption of oil exports (WSJ) that have been stalled for eight months, and the establishment of a demilitarized […]
Read more »Ethiopia: One Of World’s Fastest Growing Economies
October 13th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a look at Ethiopia’s economic growth: Ethiopia appears to be doing something right. One of the world’s five fastest growing economies in 2010, it’s expected to reach 7 per cent growth this year and next and the government hopes for double digit growth in the medium term. But this is not […]
Read more »The Beijing-Baghdad Oil Axis
October 11th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at the growing petroleum partnership between Iraq and China: Chinese oil companies have invested billions of dollars into Africa over the past decade, developing relationships with oil producing countries such as Angola, Congo and South Sudan. Now China is quietly developing another strong oil axis: Beijing-Baghdad. Fatih […]
Read more »India’s Growing Investment In East Africa
October 11th, 2012
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on India’s growing investment interest in East Africa, particularly given the region’s petroleum potential: India’s largest state-owned natural gas processing and distribution company, GAIL, announced Oct. 10 that it was working toward establishing Africa as a major supplier of natural gas. Although India’s state-level spending has diminished in recent years in […]
Read more »China’s Obstacles to Investing in Mongolian Mining
October 10th, 2012
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on China’s challenges to establishing large scale mining projects in Mongolia: A coal mine in China’s Inner Mongolia province in 2010 In 2010, Chinese state-owned mining companies began making several ambitious bids for stakes in Mongolian coal and metals mining operations. The moves reflected Beijing’s ongoing efforts to […]
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.