Archive for the ‘Sinopec’ Category

Sinopec Looks Overseas for Assets

According to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal, China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) will emphasize acquisition of foreign oil and gas assets to 2010 to build the company into an international oil major.  As the article notes: “…Su Shulin said at the company’s internal annual meeting that Sinopec, as the company is known, should […]

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China: A Bull in Iran’s Oil “Shop”

As reported in The Financial Times, Iran signed a $2bn oil contract with Sinopec of China, sending a signal to western companies that they might miss out on potentially lucrative contracts with one of the world’s biggest energy exporters if they continued to heed US-led sanctions against Tehran.  As the article notes: “…The contract to […]

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Central Asian Business Round Up

An interesting round up of news from Central Asia Beat, including the following business & investment tidbits: Finland’s Nokian Tyres will be working with Kazakhstan’s Ordabasy JSC to build a factory in Astana. The tires will serve the Kazakh and Russian Markets, eventually going into Eastern European distribution. Germany will sponsor Kazakhstan at the WTO […]

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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.