China Energy Companies: Go East (and North, South, and West) Young Man!
December 24th, 2008
Via Stratfor (subscription required), a report that China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and other Chinese energy companies are actively hunting for new investments in foreign oil and natural gas projects. As the article notes: “…The combination of a global credit shortage and low oil prices has left many energy firms around the world in dire […]
Read more »India & Russia: A Growing Petroleum Based Relationship
December 11th, 2008
Via Energy Daily, an interesting report on the growing linkages between India and Russia through petroleum. As the article notes: “…While India and China have booming economies, they share the similarity of both being energy-deficient and relying on imports. India is casting eyes across the Hindu Kush and is considering developing energy ties with its […]
Read more »China To Build A New Oil & Gas Pipeline Across Myanmar
November 20th, 2008
Via Energy Daily, a report that China will build a new oil & gas pipeline across Myanmar. As the article notes: “…Work on the oil and gas line will begin in southwest China’s Yunnan province in the first half of 2009, the state-run China Daily reported, indicating a project that has been in the planning […]
Read more »PetroChina: A Global Growth Strategy Not Admired at Home?
October 22nd, 2008
Via Stratfor (subscription required), an in-depth look at recent consideration by China’s state-owned energy giant PetroChina to acquire smaller foreign energy companies that have been weakened by the global financial contagion. As the article notes, while PetroChina stands to benefit from such acquisitions — as do China’s energy-craving domestic industries and markets — the company’s […]
Read more »Sinopec’s Bid for Syrian Petroleum Assets
September 27th, 2008
Via The Financial Post, an interesting article on China Petrochemical Corporation’s (Sinopec) offer to pay $1.9 billion for Tanganyika Oil Co. to gain oil and natural gas operations in Syria. As the article notes: “…The bid for Tanganyika came one month after Sinopec Group lost to India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. in the tussle […]
Read more »China: A Third West-East Pipeline in the Plans?
September 12th, 2008
As reported by Energy Daily, China may build a third west-east gas pipeline in a bid to meet strong demand along its economically vibrant eastern seaboard. As the reports states: The pipeline will start from the western Xinjiang region and is likely to end in Fujian province in the southeast, supplying natural gas to the […]
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.