Global Megacities
September 14th, 2014
Via Bloomberg, an interesting look at how, by 2030, 12 more urban areas with at least 10 million people are expected to enter the ranks of the planet’s megacities
Read more »Mozambique’s Gas: An Italian, American, And Asian Love Triangle
September 4th, 2014
Via Eurasia Review, a look at Mozambique’s gas sector: After years of investments and active economic presence in Africa, ENI s.p.a., the leading Italian oil company, might have achieved the biggest success of its African investment mission in Mozambique, a country whose gas deposits have the potential to become a pivot of world gas routes. […]
Read more »Sonangol: National Oil Company And Government Backbone
September 2nd, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting look at Sonangol, Angola’s national oil company: Summary Before Angola’s independence in 1975, Portugal imposed a contentious and hastily thrown together power-sharing deal among Angola’s three main ethnic groups: the Bakongo, Mbundu and Ovimbundu. This pact unraveled quickly after independence as Angola descended into a three-way civil war. […]
Read more »Myanmar: Swapping A Military Dictatorship For A Stock Exchange
August 28th, 2014
Via Ozy, an interesting look at Myanmar: Myanmar-China natural gas pipeline in the city of Laibin, located in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Thinking of investing in Myanmar? Just maybe it will be possible soon. The last time Myanmar launched a stock exchange was during its dark days of isolation in the mid-1990s when […]
Read more »Djibouti
August 28th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting look at Djibouti: Summary A member of the Presidential Guard for Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh opened fire in Djibouti’s international airport on Aug. 25, just minutes after the president’s departure. In the attack he wounded two other guards and the president’s physician in what may have been […]
Read more »Impact Of Venezuela’s Faltering Oil Sector On Central America & The Caribbean
August 27th, 2014
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of the impact that a declining Venezuelan oil industry could have wider effects in Central America and the Caribbean: The Petrocaribe summit in Managua in June 2013. Summary The decline of the Venezuelan oil sector could have wider effects in Central America and the Caribbean. Venezuela supplies crude oil […]
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.