Guyana Sells $750M of Carbon Credit to US Oil Firm Hess
December 5th, 2022
Via Oil & Gas Daily, a report on the recent sale Guyana sells $750 mn of carbon credit to US oil firm Hess Guyana has sold $750 million worth of carbon credits to the US oil group Hess, which drills off the coast of the small South American country that is 89 percent virgin forest. President Irfaan […]
Read more »Emerging Market Investors: Drop A Bric and Pick Up A Bimchip
December 4th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on some emerging markets viewed with promise: As a glutton for investment punishment, I return to the vexed subject of emerging market equities and bonds. In July I suggested that a selective strategy of investing long term in key emerging markets (EM) might make sense, even though most […]
Read more »Sialkot: The Pakistani City At The Heart of Alibaba’s Global Expansion Strategy
December 4th, 2022
Courtesy of Rest of World, an article on Sialkot, which has become Pakistan’s export hub in recent years, and is home to one of the largest concentrations of sellers on the Chinese e-commerce site: Just 15 kilometers from Pakistan’s border with India, Sialkot is a city of military outposts, cantonments, and factories. Local lore has it […]
Read more »North Africa: No Instant Cure for Europe’s Energy Woes
December 4th, 2022
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on North Africa’s potential to help address Europe’s energy challenges: Several major energy projects connecting northwest Africa to Europe are being made necessary by current geopolitical realities, making this route a vital energy corridor. The Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline is a unique multi-country project, while Algeria’s Maghreb-Europe Gas Pipeline and several other […]
Read more »Uranium-Rich Niger Struggles Despite Nuclear Resurgence
December 2nd, 2022
Via Nuclear Power Daily, an article on Niger’s mining prospects: Prospects for the world’s nuclear industry have been boosted by the war in Ukraine and mounting hostility towards climate-wrecking fossil fuels — but Niger, one of the world’s biggest sources of uranium, has yet to feel the improvement. The deeply impoverished landlocked Sahel state is […]
Read more »Cuba Wins China Debt Relief, New Funds
December 2nd, 2022
Via Reuters, a report on new Chinese support to Cuba: China has agreed to restructure Cuban debt and provide new trade and investment credits to the beleaguered Caribbean Island nation after a meeting in Peking between the two Communist countries’ leaders. Cuba Economy Minister Alejandro Gil said the latter had also donated $100 million 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.