Can China’s Belt and Road Open Up Landlocked Laos?
August 2nd, 2021
Via Geopolitical Monitor, an article on China’s investments in Laos: Around mid-August, the final tracks will be laid on a 420 km high-speed railway in Laos, enabling the first trains to be tested on the Chinese-built line. Work on the project began in 2016, seeking to link the southern Chinese city of Kunming with Laotian capital Vientiane, […]
Read more »Lukoil Retracts Decision to Sell Stake in Iraq’s Field
August 1st, 2021
Via Bloomberg, an article on Lukoil’s recent decision not to sell its stake in West Qurna-2 field in the south to Chinese companies: Russia’s Lukoil PJSC is retracting its decision to sell its stake in West Qurna-2 field in the south to Chinese companies, according to Iraqi state-run newspaper Al-Sabah. Iraq’s oil ministry has been in talks […]
Read more »The World’s Largest 10 Economies in 2030
July 28th, 2021
Via Visual Capitalist, an interesting look at the world’s largest ten (10) economies in 2030: World’s Largest Economies in 2030 The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Today’s emerging markets are tomorrow’s powerhouses, according to a recent forecast from Standard Chartered, a multinational bank headquartered in London. The bank sees developing economies like […]
Read more »Why Investor Jim Rogers Is Poking Around Uzbekistan
July 28th, 2021
Via Forbes, an article on Uzbekistan: There’s an old Chinese proverb that goes like this: “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” This should be on a plaque hanging above every long-term investor’s desk. For sure, it is how famed investor Jim Rogers thinks. His […]
Read more »BRI vs New Quad for Afghanistan’s Coming Boom
July 26th, 2021
Via The Asia Times, an article on the race to build and extend Afghanistan’s shattered infrastructure: Over a week ago the excruciatingly slow Doha peace talks between the Kabul government and the Taliban resumed, and then they dragged on for two days observed by envoys from the EU, US and UN. Nothing happened. They could […]
Read more »As Major Western Oil Companies Reconsider Iraq, China Seizes Opportunities Offered By Their Departure
July 24th, 2021
Via Al Monitor, a report on Chinese oil companies’ increased interest in Iraq: Western oil companies have started to pull out of central and southern Iraq and are being replaced by Chinese companies following terrorist attacks against facilities and reports of extortion from tribes, militias and bureaucratic officials in state institutions. Meanwhile, Iraq has halted its plans to […]
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.