Kurdistan’s Oil: Past, Present and Future
September 30th, 2017
Via Global Risk Insight, a look at oil and gas reserves in the autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq: The development of oil and gas reserves in the autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) is a recent phenomenon which began after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Despite the KRI’s significant energy potential, it was impossible […]
Read more »China Takes Stake In Russian Oil Company Rosneft
September 28th, 2017
Via Eurasia Review, a report on a new chapter in Russia-China energy ties: Russia has opened its doors wider to Chinese investment with the sale of a share in state oil company Rosneft, but financial pressures and sanctions may have given it little choice. In a surprising development on Sept. 8, privately held CEFC China Energy […]
Read more »Afghanistan and Central Asia Republics
September 20th, 2017
Courtesy of the Times of Central Asia, interesting analysis of Afghanistan and its relations with Central Asian Republics: On September 17 Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani emphasized the significance of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, lauding the contribution that such large-scale projects could make to the peaceful settlement of the situation in Afghanistan and the sustainable social and […]
Read more »New ‘Silk Road’ Fund Hopes China’s Eurasia Strategy Is A Money Maker
September 20th, 2017
Via Forbes, an article on a new fund targeting SRI-related investment opportunities: A road in Tajikstan in Eurasia. These vast land masses of old nomadic tribes are along China’s new Silk Road: a massive means to export capital, labor and products to new markets, many of which are not even considered frontier markets yet by […]
Read more »Railway Cargo Flow Between Afghanistan and China Depends on Uzbekistan
September 12th, 2017
Via Central Times of Asia, a report on how railway cargo between Afghanistan and China depends on Uzbekistan: The shipment of goods to Afghanistan by rail from China stopped three months ago due to the lack of infrastructure at the Afghan port on the Uzbek border and the absence of trade and transit agreements with […]
Read more »The Opaque Trading Network Keeping North Korea Afloat
September 12th, 2017
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a look at the web of rusty ships and shell companies keeping North Korea afloat despite tightening sanctions: For a Hong Kong company managing a small fleet of cargo ships, Union Link International hoists an exotic array of flags, from China and Tanzania to the Pacific island nations of Niue […]
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.