Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline
August 2nd, 2022
Via International Intrigue, a look at the Trans Saharan gas pipeline: Nigeria, Algeria, and Niger have signed a new agreement to build the Trans-Saharan Pipeline, a project designed to transport Nigerian gas to Europe. Securing funding for the project is the first task on their list, and with a rival African pipeline also looking for investors, […]
Read more »Oil and Gas Discoveries Boost Algeria
August 2nd, 2022
Via African Business, a report on three (3) discoveries made in the Algerian desert last week should expand Algeria’s gas and oil deliveries to Europe as the continent looks beyond Russia for gas deliveries: Algeria’s state-owned oil company Sonatrach has announced three major oil and gas discoveries in the Sahara desert. Since the outbreak of […]
Read more »China’s BRI Staggers and Stalls in Indonesia
July 30th, 2022
Via the Asia Times, an article on how the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail was supposed to be China’s signature BRI project in Indonesia but it isn’t working out that way: For the frustrated Indonesian government, the light at the end of the tunnel still looks as far away as ever as it struggles to overcome cost overruns, […]
Read more »Russia: Using Sudan’s Gold To Fund Ukraine War Effort
July 30th, 2022
Via CNN, a report on Russia’s alleged plundering of gold in Sudan to boost Putin’s war effort in Ukraine: Days after Moscow launched its bloody war on Ukraine, a Russian cargo plane stood on a Khartoum runway, a strip of tarmac surrounded by red-orange sand. The aircraft’s manifest stated it was loaded with cookies. Sudan rarely, […]
Read more »Sri Lanka’s State-Owned Enterprises: A Big Part of Its Economic Problems
July 28th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a look at Sri Lanka’s state-owned enterprises whose loss-making operations are a huge drain on government coffers: Sri Lanka is in an unenviable position, and its policy makers face a conundrum. The country is experiencing its worst economic crisis in a century. Sri Lanka has formally defaulted; its public debt is over 100 percent of GDP […]
Read more »Map Shows Massive Gas Pipeline That Russia and China Are Building
July 28th, 2022
Via CNBC, a report on the massive gas pipeline that Russia and China are building: China and Russia are in the final stages of building the first pipeline that can send gas from Siberia to Shanghai. “Power of Siberia” — as the portion located in Russia is called — began delivering natural gas to northern China […]
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.