Archive for 2022

Russia Says Pipeline To China Will Replace Nord Stream 2

Via Oil & Gas Daily, an article on Russia’s decision to build a new pipeline to China to replace Nord Stream 2: A Russian pipeline to China will replace the Nord Stream 2 gas link to Europe, abandoned amid the Ukraine conflict, Moscow’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Thursday. Asked in an interview with Russian television […]

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Trial Run for China-Afghan Rail Corridor

Via The Diplomat, an article on the trial period for the new China-Afghan rail corridor: A trial period of three months will see freight trains from China deliver goods to Afghanistan via Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Exports of Afghan goods will follow the same routeback to China. This new railway corridor commenced its trial run on September 13 when […]

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Extension Of CPEC To Afghanistan Could Link Infrastructure Across Continent

Via The Third Pole, a report on the likelihood that road and rail projects will be extended to Afghanistan under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Once the highway becomes a motorway, trucking supplies to Afghanistan will become much faster,” said Shakir Afridi, president of the transport union for Khyber district, in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Afridi […]

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Ooredoo Telecom To Exit Myanmar, Following Norway’s Telenor

Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Ooredoo’s decision to exit Myanmar, following Norway’s Telenor: Qatari telecommunications group Ooredoo has agreed to sell its Myanmar business to a Singapore-registered company in a deal that would see the company exit the troubled south-east Asian nation. Ooredoo Asian Investments, which owns Ooredoo Myanmar and Ooredoo Myanmar Fintech, […]

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Nigeria Loses Africa’s Top Oil Producer Spot to Angola

Via VOA, an article on African oil production: Nigeria has lost its position as Africa’s top oil producer to Angola, industry insiders say, and could soon become third after Libya. Oil analysts say Nigeria’s production struggle is coming at the worst time, as oil prices have jumped, partly because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According […]

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Colombia and Venezuela Reopen Shared Border To Some Transport

Via Al Jazeera, a report that Colombia and Venezuela are easing restrictions on their shared border for cargo transport and commercial flights: The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela have announced that commercial flights will resume between the two nations and cargo transport will be allowed across their shared border on September 26 after a years-long closure. The announcement […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.