Turkey Set for Gas-Exploration Deal After Wooing Ex-Libya Foes
August 24th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, an article on an agreement for Turkey to explore Libyan gas: Libya’s eastern parliament is set to vote on a 2019 pact that would allow Turkey to explore for energy in the North African nation’s waters. The agreement could kickstart oil and gas exploration by Turkish ships in a swathe of territory between […]
Read more »All Downhill: Neom Ski Resort Strains Budget; Saudi Arabia and Olympic Council Weigh Moving Asian Winter Games
August 22nd, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a report that Saudi Arabia and the Olympic Council are weighing moving the Asian Winter Games: Saudi Arabia and the Olympic Council of Asia have begun approaching other countries to potentially take over the 2029 Asian Winter Games as the ski resort designated to host the tournament in the Middle Eastern nation grapples […]
Read more »Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels
August 22nd, 2025
Via Wired, a look at how Africa’s energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus. From Algeria on the Mediterranean coast to landlocked Zambia in the south, countries across Africa have been importing significantly more solar panels from China this year than […]
Read more »Tajikistan Blames Illegal Cryptocurrency Mining for Some of Its Energy Woes
August 20th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a report on Tajikistan’s energy woes: During an August 12 conference, Tajikistan’s Prosecutor General Khabibullo Vokhidzoda expressed concern over electricity theft by illegal cryptocurrency mining farms in the country. According to Vokhidzoda, whose office is currently pursuing five criminal investigations into the matter, the financial damage caused by these illegal operations in just the […]
Read more »China’s growing ties with Serbia point to new ‘Silk Curtain’ in Europe
August 20th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at Beijing’s expanded Balkan presence, with Washington focused on Ukraine: Southeast of the “Iron Curtain” famously described by Winston Churchill in 1946, a new group of China-friendly nations is forming a north-south line that runs through the heart of Eurasia. While this “Silk Curtain” — which runs from Hungary in […]
Read more »Why Iran Can’t Keep The Lights On
August 19th, 2025
Via The Asia Times, insight into how chronic power deficit, rooted in aging infrastructure and economic mismanagement, is crippling Iranian industry and life: For Iranians, the seasons are now marked by two certainties: rolling blackouts during the scorching summer heat and toxic smog from burning low-grade fuel in power plants during the freezing winter. This […]
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.