Firing of the NOC Chairman Risks Politicizing Libya’s Oil Company
July 16th, 2022
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on how the recent firing of the NOC Chairman risks politicizing Libya’s oil company: In firing Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) board of directors, Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah is trying to end oil blockades and encourage his eastern-based rival Khalifa Hifter to enter negotiations on a possible political settlement. But […]
Read more »Russia’s Dreams of a Red Sea Naval Base Are Scuttled—for Now
July 16th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, an article on Russia’s scuttled plans for a Red Sea Naval Base in Sudan: Russia’s hopes of establishing a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea, one of the world’s busiest waterways, have run aground, according to two U.S. intelligence officials who spoke to Foreign Policy on condition of anonymity. U.S. officials have […]
Read more »The ‘Lithium OPEC’
July 16th, 2022
Via Week In China, a look at what some are calling the ‘Lithium OPEC’: Lithium – known as the ‘white petroleum’ – is a metal commonly used in the making of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). A dozen years ago in August 2010, Tianqi and Ganfeng, China’s leading producers of the metal, both went public […]
Read more »Using WhatsApp To Buy Red Snapper In Medellín
July 13th, 2022
Via Rest of World, an interesting look at how Colombian entrepreneurs have been using WhatsApp and Instagram to build e-commerce businesses: One morning in May, Sebastián Gil got a call at 8 a.m. from a fisherman in Bahía Solano — a small town on Colombia’s Pacific coast, around 200 kilometers from Gil’s home in Medellín — looking […]
Read more »‘The Taliban Have Picked Up the Resource Curse’
July 12th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, a report on how the Taliban are strip-mining their mineral wealth to fund factional power grabs: For decades, Afghanistan’s people have been told of the vast riches beneath their feet, untapped mineral resources potentially worth billions of dollars that the world is clamoring to explore, exploit, and export to create jobs in a […]
Read more »One of the World’s Most Active Investors Is On The Prowl In Pakistan
July 11th, 2022
Via Rest of World, a look at Tiger Global’s swift and aggressive moves in Pakistan: Despite being the fifth most populous country in the world, Pakistan has long been ignored by international tech companies and investors: PayPal services are unavailable in the country, Amazon’s e-commerce website doesn’t operate here, and Apple didn’t even have an official […]
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.