Libyan Oil: A Bittersweet Return?
December 24th, 2016
Via the Foreign Policy Association, a look at the impact of Libyan oil re-entering the global market: After a series of skirmishes, frantic deal making now looks to have brought about the surprise return to force of Libya in the oil export market. However Libyan oil coming back online could jeopardize a fragile production cut […]
Read more »Pakistan Turns To China In Energy Binge
December 24th, 2016
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, an article on Pakistan’s plan to revive its economy with a $21B electricity program: When Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came to office in 2013, rolling power outages across the country were plunging homes and businesses into darkness for up to 12 hours a day. Now the Pakistani leader is betting on […]
Read more »Ivory Coast Moves Beyond War to Become a West African Powerhouse
December 24th, 2016
Via the Wall Street Journal, an interesting look at Cote d’Ivoire: This West African country in October became the continent’s fastest-growing economy, a sharp reversal from 2011, when a bloody civil conflict left 3,000 people dead. The International Monetary Fund said surging foreign investment, political stability and firm prices for its main crops helped the […]
Read more »Inside China’s Global Spending Spree: OBOR
December 18th, 2016
Courtesy of Fortune Magazine, a detailed look at China’s One Belt One Road spending plans: “One Belt, One Road,” China’s $3 trillion infrastructure building campaign, could be a windfall for some Western companies and investors. The high-rise coastal city of Dubai plays host to all kinds of luxury oddities: indoor ski slopes, gold-bar vending machines, […]
Read more »Global Implications of Economic Corridors in China and ECO Countries
December 16th, 2016
Via the Business Recorder, a look at trade corridors in Central Asia: Economic history of Central and South Asia is largely associated with the connectivity of trade and natural and human resources among the peoples of Central and South Asian countries. The silk rout and the Grand Trunk road (famously known as ‘GT Road’ in […]
Read more »TAPI: A Transnational Pipe Dream
December 15th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at the proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline: Forecast Until the Taliban and the government in Kabul arrive at a settlement to end the war, building the Afghan portion of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline will be difficult. So long as India and Pakistan are at loggerheads over the contested […]
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.