Chabahar, India’s Strategic Gateway, On Fast Track vs. OBOR
October 5th, 2017
Via Business Standard, a look at Chabahar port: Chabahar port, located in the Sistan-Baluchistan province on the south-eastern coast of Iran, is of a major strategic importance to India as it would give it sea-land access into Afghanistan and through Iran’s eastern borders, to Central Asia. From the Chabahar port, there is a 883-km road route to Afghanistan’s border town […]
Read more »Tycoon Takes Investors Heli Skiing to Show Them Pakistan’s Safe
October 4th, 2017
Via Bloomberg, an interesting look at Pakistan: In the northern snow-capped peaks of Pakistan, Zia Chishti disembarked off a helicopter and skied downhill on a mission to convince investors, clients and company executives that the nation once called by The Economist “the world’s most dangerous place” is now safe for business. Chishti, who grew up […]
Read more »Kurdistan’s Oil: Past, Present and Future
September 30th, 2017
Via Global Risk Insight, a look at oil and gas reserves in the autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq: The development of oil and gas reserves in the autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) is a recent phenomenon which began after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Despite the KRI’s significant energy potential, it was impossible […]
Read more »China Takes Stake In Russian Oil Company Rosneft
September 28th, 2017
Via Eurasia Review, a report on a new chapter in Russia-China energy ties: Russia has opened its doors wider to Chinese investment with the sale of a share in state oil company Rosneft, but financial pressures and sanctions may have given it little choice. In a surprising development on Sept. 8, privately held CEFC China Energy […]
Read more »Afghanistan and Central Asia Republics
September 20th, 2017
Courtesy of the Times of Central Asia, interesting analysis of Afghanistan and its relations with Central Asian Republics: On September 17 Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani emphasized the significance of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, lauding the contribution that such large-scale projects could make to the peaceful settlement of the situation in Afghanistan and the sustainable social and […]
Read more »New ‘Silk Road’ Fund Hopes China’s Eurasia Strategy Is A Money Maker
September 20th, 2017
Via Forbes, an article on a new fund targeting SRI-related investment opportunities: A road in Tajikstan in Eurasia. These vast land masses of old nomadic tribes are along China’s new Silk Road: a massive means to export capital, labor and products to new markets, many of which are not even considered frontier markets yet by […]
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.