How Does Central Asia Cooperate With Iran to Access World Markets?
August 3rd, 2024
Via The Diplomat, an article on how the countries of Central Asia – particularly Uzbekistan – see an opportunity to diversity trade routes via Iran: Iran holds a pivotal role in bridging the geographically closed Central Asian region with the Middle East, South Asia, and the Caucasus, as well as Europe. As Uzbekistan’s economic growth […]
Read more »Cameroon Signs Bauxite Deal with Canyon Resources
August 1st, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on a new bauxite mining project in Cameroon: Cameroon on Tuesday signed a bauxite mining deal worth at least $2 billion with a subsidiary of Australia-based Canyon Resources (CAY.AX), opens new tab, as the central African nation seeks to become an upper middle-income country by 2035. Camalco, the Cameroonian subsidiary of […]
Read more »BP To Develop New Oil & Gas Fields In Iraq
August 1st, 2024
Via Al Monitor, a report on BP’s plans to develop new fields in Iraq: Iraq signed an agreement with British energy giant British Petroleum on Thursday to develop four oil and gas fields in the northern province of Kirkuk. A memorandum of understanding was signed by Iraq’s Oil Minister Hayan Abdel Ghani and BP’s CEO […]
Read more »A New Dawn for Afghanistan’s Mes Aynak Copper Mine?
July 31st, 2024
Via The Diplomat, an article on how – with a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the start of work on an access road – the Taliban and China aim to get the Mes Aynak project underway again: After 16 years of delays, last week representatives of Afghanistan’s Taliban government and Chinese engineers broke ground at Mes Aynak, estimated […]
Read more »Chad, Equatorial Guinea: When Oil and Development Don’t Mix
July 31st, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a report on Chad and Equatorial Guinea – two countries that benefited from major oil discoveries in the late 1990s. But more than two decades later, despite billions of dollars in revenue, nothing has changed for the overwhelming majority of the population: In 1996, Equatorial Guinea and its 1.5 million inhabitants struck […]
Read more »The Dark Side of Tunisia’s Phosphate Boom
July 30th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, an article on the impact that Kais Saied’s government efforts to capitalize on demand for a critical mineral is having upon Tunisia’s environment: In Tunisia’s Gafsa Valley, the desert takes on a different guise. Rather than the picturesque dunes frequented by tourists farther south, the land bears the scars of a deteriorating […]
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.