Mexico’s Energy Industry Gushes With Investment Opportunity
January 1st, 2015
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at Mexico’s hydrocarbons sector: Mexico’s government recently passed reforms repealing important limitations on oil and gas ownership introduced in 1938.While these reforms will reshape Mexico’s energy industry over the next few years, they will also bring about investment opportunities in the energy industry throughout the rest of Latin […]
Read more »Energy-Rich Turkmenistan Devalues Currency Against Dollar
January 1st, 2015
Via Business Insider, a report on Turkmenistan’s currency woes: A view of Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabad. The energy-rich former Soviet republic has devalued its currency against the US dollar by 18 percent The energy-rich former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan devalued its currency against the US dollar by 18 percent Thursday, in the latest sign of contagion […]
Read more »Cuba’s Oil: A New Frontier, Surrounded By Hopes And Doubts
December 21st, 2014
Via the Times-Picayune, a look at Cuba’s hydrocarbon potential: One of the most prolific oil and gas basins on the planet sits just off Cuba’s northwest coast, and the thaw in relations with the United States is giving rise to hopes that Cuba can now get in on the action. It’s a prospect welcomed by […]
Read more »Central Asia: Stuck Between A Sinking Russia And A Dominant China
December 20th, 2014
Via Forbes, an interesting look at Central Asia’s geopolitical reality at present: Central Asia, stuck between Russia, the dominant power of yesterday, whose cultural influence in the region remains strong even as its economy implodes and its political clout increasingly plays second fiddle to China, and China, the dominant power of tomorrow, whose targeted economic […]
Read more »U.S. Businesses Scout Opportunities In Cuba
December 18th, 2014
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on the spike in American business interest in Cuba: PepsiCo wants in. So do Caterpillar and Marriott International. Within hours of President Obama’s historic move to restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba, companies in the United States were weighing how to introduce their products and services to […]
Read more »Cuba’s Economy At A Crossroads
December 15th, 2014
Two interesting articles on Cuba’s economy. The first, courtesy of the New York Times, offer this commentary: In July 2007, while serving as acting president as his brother underwent medical treatment, Raúl Castro delivered a startling indictment of the Cuban economy when he railed about the inefficiencies of the dairy industry. His description of […]
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.