Pakistan Will Build Pipeline to Iran to Import Natural Gas
March 3rd, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report that Pakistan plans to build a pipeline to Iran to import natural gas: Pipeline faced delays over Pakistan’s concerns of sanctions Pakistan says its needs to replenish dwindling supplies Pakistan is moving ahead to build a pipeline that will transport natural gas from Iran, a move it says is needed […]
Read more »Data Center Investments Shift To Emerging Markets Amidst Regulatory Scrutiny and Energy Needs
March 3rd, 2024
Via Frontier Market News, a look at how data center investment is shifting to emerging markets amid regulatory scrutiny and rising energy needs: The boom in artificial intelligence use and investment is creating a surge of demand for data centers, the massive facilities which house and transmit the vast amounts of data needed to train […]
Read more »American Investors’ Multi-Billion-Dollar Green Hydrogen and Ammonia Plant in Chile Seeks Approval
March 3rd, 2024
Via Hydrogen Insight, a report on a planned multi-billion-dollar green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Chile, which aims to draw on high solar power potential in the Atacama Desert to power cheap renewable NH3 production at the port city of Mejillones: A $2.5bn green hydrogen and ammonia project in northern Chile that will utilise solar […]
Read more »Dirty Money Is Destroying Sudan
March 3rd, 2024
Via Foreign Affairs, commentary on how Middle Eastern countries whih see especially tempting opportunities to exploit Sudan’s natural resources, access its ports along the Red Sea, use it as a base to combat the Houthis in Yemen, quash pro-democracy efforts, and strengthen the hand of Islamist or anti-Islamist groups have become a major source of […]
Read more »China To Build Kenya’s AFCON Stadium
March 3rd, 2024
Via NTV Kenya, news that Kenya has signed up China Road and Bridge Corporation to build a 60,000-seat stadium in Nairobi for Africa’s biggest sporting competition, the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). It comes ahead of AFCON 2027, which Kenya will host jointly with its neighbors Tanzania and Uganda. Kenya sports ministry The facility, set […]
Read more »Made In Africa: 5 Ways To Accelerate Industrialization
March 3rd, 2024
Via The Africa Report, commentary on how strategy, business climate, infrastructure, financing and training are the main thrusts of a battle plan designed to turn long-held ambition of industrializing Africa into reality: When it comes to industry in Africa, the figures are depressing. For more than 30 years, the share of manufacturing value added in […]
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.