Pipeline Politics: A Proposed Turkmenistan – Europe Connection
April 25th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of a proposed Turkmenistan – Europe pipeline: Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov (R) attends the opening ceremony at a refinery in Samandepe on Dec. 14, 2009. Summary The crisis in Ukraine has heightened Europe’s interest in diversifying energy supplies away from Russia, and the long discussed Trans-Caspian pipeline […]
Read more »North Korea: An Emerging Regional Crossroads
April 21st, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of North Korea’s potential as a regional crossroads in Asia: North Korea has attracted increased attention in recent weeks, less for its nuclear potential or missile tests and more for its potential as a transportation and energy corridor. On April 18, the lower house of Russia’s parliament ratified […]
Read more »How The Kurds Got Their Way: New Transitional Zones of Economic Cooperation In The Middle East
April 21st, 2014
Via Foreign Affairs, an interesting report on the emergence of Keep on truckin’: guarding fuel trucks in Haj Umran, Iraqi Kurdistan, July 2010. The surge of ethnic and sectarian strife in Syria and across the Middle East has led a number of analysts to predict the coming breakup of many Arab states. This potential upending […]
Read more »Dangote Group: Expanding On Concrete Foundations
April 20th, 2014
Via The Economist, an interesting look at Nigeria’s Dangote Group’s efforts to expand across Africa: THERE are 21 monster lorries at the Dangote Cement quarry in Obajana (pictured), a three-hour drive from Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. Their cargo of limestone boulders gives off a bleach-white glow in the hot sun. As big as they are, the […]
Read more »Angola: Still Too Oily
April 20th, 2014
Courtesy of The Economist, a detailed look at Angola’s need to diversify its oil economy: A new Luanda sprouts up under the old one FROM the top of the Fortaleza de São Miguel, a 16th-century Portuguese citadel that once dominated the Angolan capital, you see an army of cranes erecting high-rise offices, fancy hotels and […]
Read more »Development Via Regional Integration – Mongolia’s Chance For A Prosperous Future
April 18th, 2014
Via the Asian Development Bank, a look at how Mongolia could boost its economy through careful regional integration: Regional integration offers Mongolia the opportunity for a more prosperous future. But the country has lagged in this effort, which is surprising given its geographical location where bold integration initiatives have been launched, such as the People’s […]
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.