Will Sonatrach’s Hydrocarbon Discovery Make Algeria A Key Energy Partner For Europe?
April 14th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at a new energy discovery in Algeria: Following a record-breaking year in 2022, the national company Sonatrach has announced the discovery of six new deposits in the first quarter of 2023. In the midst of a global decline in production, the oil and gas boom shows no signs […]
Read more »China-Russia Cooperation in Africa and the Middle East
April 14th, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, commentary on how Africa and the Middle East provide conducive conditions for China and Russia to advance their shared and separate agendas: Beijing aspires to restore China’s centrality in the global system. Moscow aims to achieve Russia’s revanchist agenda at all costs. In attempting to reconfigure the international rules-based order, China’s […]
Read more »Qatar Gives China Share of Landmark Natural Gas Field
April 14th, 2023
Via Oil and Gas Daily, a report on a recent Qatari decision to give China a share of landmark natural gas field: Chinese oil giant Sinopec on Wednesday became the first Asian firm to get a stake in Qatar’s expansion of North Field East, the Gulf country’s energy company announced. North Field contains the world’s […]
Read more »Chinese Company Offers $10B Investment In Afghanistan’s Lithium Deposits
April 14th, 2023
While the sum seems rather high, The Frontier Post reports on a purported $10B offer by a Chinese firm for Afghanistan’s lithium deposits: The Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said on Thursday that a Chinese Company, Gochin expressed its interest in investing $10 billion in Afghanistan’s lithium deposits. According to the statement, the acting […]
Read more »Saudi Arabia Launches Special Economic Zones
April 14th, 2023
Via Geo Politics of South Asia and MENA, a report on Saudi Arabia’s four (4) new Special Economic Zones: According to Saudi Gazette, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, who is also chairman of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs, launched on Thursday four new Special Economic Zones in Saudi Arabia. The […]
Read more »Investments Rise in Chabahar Free Zone
April 13th, 2023
Via the Tehran Times, an article on growing investment interest in the Chabahar port free zone: In this century, transit and routes for transporting goods and passengers are extremely important. One of the ways that countries can increase their economic and political power and consequently their national power at a lower cost is the optimal […]
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.