Uranium-Rich Niger Struggles Despite Nuclear Resurgence
December 2nd, 2022
Via Nuclear Power Daily, an article on Niger’s mining prospects: Prospects for the world’s nuclear industry have been boosted by the war in Ukraine and mounting hostility towards climate-wrecking fossil fuels — but Niger, one of the world’s biggest sources of uranium, has yet to feel the improvement. The deeply impoverished landlocked Sahel state is […]
Read more »Cuba Wins China Debt Relief, New Funds
December 2nd, 2022
Via Reuters, a report on new Chinese support to Cuba: China has agreed to restructure Cuban debt and provide new trade and investment credits to the beleaguered Caribbean Island nation after a meeting in Peking between the two Communist countries’ leaders. Cuba Economy Minister Alejandro Gil said the latter had also donated $100 million to […]
Read more »GIFT City: India’s Free-Market Oasis Aims to Take On Singapore and Dubai
December 2nd, 2022
Via Bloomberg, an interesting look at India’s efforts to create a finance hub that will become the next Singapore or Dubai: India’s newest financial hub is rising from scrubland near the banks of the Sabarmati River once dominated by marsh birds and grazing buffalo. In the state of Gujarat, just a few glass-fronted towers greet the 20,000 employees […]
Read more »UAE Plans Global Energy Push With $150 Billion of Spending
November 29th, 2022
Via Bloomberg, an article on the United Arab Emirates’ main energy company’s plans to boost investment to $150 billion over the next five years: The United Arab Emirates’ main energy company will boost investment to $150 billion over the next five years, speed up an increase in oil-production capacity and list some of its natural […]
Read more »$7bn Saudi Hydrogen Plan To Unleash Thailand’s Green Power Potential
November 29th, 2022
Via Recharge News, a report on a Saudi ACWA’s new $7bn hydrogen plan to unleash Thailand’s green power potential: Saudi renewables developer ACWA Power is partnering with the Thai state on a plan to develop a massive $7bn green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Thailand — the first of this size earmarked for the south […]
Read more »Mongolia Puts Faith In Chinese Railway To Boost Covid-Battered Economy
November 29th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Mongolia’s hopes that a Chinese railway will help boost its Covid-battered economy: Mongolia opened a new rail line to China on Friday that the landlocked country’s prime minister said would help it weather the zero-Covid controls that have disrupted cross-border trade with its powerful neighbour. “The opening of […]
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.