Archive for the ‘Rosneft’ Category

Russia-ing North: A Plan To Develop Arctic Oil Reserves
July 20th, 2008

From The Star.com, news that the Kremlin will handpick companies to develop the vast oil reserves believed to be located in the Russian Arctic.  As the article notes:  “…Medvedev outlined priorities for developing some of Russia’s richest and most challenging oil deposits.  The government will take the unusual step of selecting companies to develop the […]

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A Shifting Balance between Gazprom and Rosneft in Russia?
December 29th, 2007

Came across Strator’s (subscription only) interesting analysis of Gazprom’s desire to purchase at least 50 percent of Rosneft’s prized subsidiary, Tomskneft, a move indicating that Gazprom may soon attempt to equal or surpass rival Rosneft’s influence in Russian petro-circles.  As discussed on this blog earlier, Gazprom’s board chairman and overall political backer, Dmitri Medvedev, has […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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