Archive for 2024

Namibia: Plans To Manufacture Solar Panels, Copper Cables, Electrolysers, and Wind Turbines
January 1st, 2024

Via The Extractor, an article on Namibia’s plans to manufacture solar panels, copper cables, electrolysers, and wind turbines: Namibia has identified 15 industries across four categories to manufacture renewable energy hardware, solar panels, copper cables, electrolysers, and wind turbines as part of its green industrialisation strategy. In addition, there could be the processing of battery materials, […]

Read more »
Posted in Namibia | Comments Off on Namibia: Plans To Manufacture Solar Panels, Copper Cables, Electrolysers, and Wind Turbines

---

Republic of the Congo: 2024 Economic Overview
January 1st, 2024

Via The Business Year, a cursory overview of the economic landscape in the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) in 2024. The economy of the Republic of the Congo is almost exclusively commodity-based, particularly relying on the export of natural resources—a shortcoming that most observers agree must be addressed. The Republic of the Congo is the third-largest […]

Read more »
Posted in Congo | Comments Off on Republic of the Congo: 2024 Economic Overview

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.

---