African Hydrocarbons: Pipe Dreams Without Western Lenders
December 16th, 2023
Via The Economist, an article on how to get African oil out of the ground without Western lenders: From western Uganda, the East African Crude Oil Pipleine will run for 1,443km through farms, forests and rivers, until it reaches the Tanzanian coast. If, that is, anyone pays for it. Already, 27 banks have ruled themselves out […]
Read more »Why BRICS Matters For Pakistan
December 16th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on why the BRICS matter for Pakistan: “BRICS can act as a catalyst for the operationalization of the Pakistan foreign policy objective aimed at prioritizing economic security over the strategic security”. In the chaotic multipolar world order, the emerging economies are paving their way towards prosperity and development, trying to bypass great power […]
Read more »Pakistan’s ‘Pink Riders’ Hit The Road In Battle Against Sexism
December 16th, 2023
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on an interesting motorcycle training institute in Pakistan, fostering a group number of women riding motorcycles in the South Asian nation: Madiha Khan’s life was upended three years ago when an illness left her husband partially paralyzed. The 33-year-old from a middle-class Karachi neighborhood suddenly found herself struggling to look […]
Read more »TotalEnergies Expands Its Suriname Presence
December 16th, 2023
Via Eurasia Review, a report on TotalEnergies growing activity in Suriname as it takes a new offshore exploration license: TotalEnergies’ presence in Suriname. Credit: TotalEnergies TotalEnergies and its partners QatarEnergy and Petronas have signed a production sharing contract for Block 64 with Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie), the State-owned oil company of Suriname. Block 64 was awarded […]
Read more »How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time
December 16th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how more than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa and – despite growing resentment at France – Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language: French, by most estimates the world’s fifth most spoken language, is changing — perhaps […]
Read more »China’s Essential Role in the Gulf States’ Energy Transitions
December 16th, 2023
Via the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an article on China’s essential role in the Gulf States’ energy transitions: After a sluggish start, Gulf states are getting serious about the energy transition. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are embarking on a concerted effort to decarbonize their power grids and seek regional and international […]
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.