Sudan, South Sudan: A Pipeline Attack Amid Oil Talks
June 14th, 2013
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of a recent pipeline attack in South Sudan: The oil pipeline facility in Heglig, South Kordofan state, Sudan. Summary Sudanese army officials said June 13 that rebel groups operating in the contested Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan attacked a pipeline June 12 and caused an explosion. Khartoum claims […]
Read more »Welcome To Mogadishu
June 2nd, 2013
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Somalia: Boys repairing fishermen’s nets on Mogadishu seafront You can see where their heads hit the roof,” says a member of Somalia’s bomb squad. He is showing me pictures of the latest co-ordinated suicide attack. Even in the mess that mingles body parts of victims and perpetrators, […]
Read more »China’s Global Reach
June 2nd, 2013
Courtesy of the New York Times, an OpEd on the global reach of China’s state capitalism: THE combination of a strong, rising China and economic stagnation in Europe and America is making the West increasingly uncomfortable. While China is not taking over the world militarily, it seems to be steadily taking it over commercially. In […]
Read more »A Looming Showdown Over Iraqi Kurdish Oil
June 1st, 2013
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed analysis of another showdown that is building between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the government of Iraq over oil exports, only this time Turkey has entered the fight: Turkey has a dilemma. Its competition with Iran in Syria has already been exposed — Turkey is backing the Sunni […]
Read more »Myanmar: Unique Opportunities, Major Challenges
May 30th, 2013
Via McKinsey, a summary of a new report on Myanmar: Myanmar is a highly unusual but promising prospect for businesses and investors—an underdeveloped economy with many advantages, in the heart of the world’s fastest-growing region. Home to 60 million inhabitants (46 million of working age), this Asian nation has abundant natural resources and is close […]
Read more »Philippines Defies Asia Slowdown With Best Growth Since 2010
May 30th, 2013
Via Bloomberg, a report on the Philippine’s economic growth: Philippine growth unexpectedly accelerated to the fastest pace in almost three years, defying a regional slowdown as President Benigno Aquino boosted investment and state spending. The peso reversed its decline. Gross domestic product rose 7.8 percent in the three months through March from a year earlier, […]
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.