Algeria Relaxes Rules For Foreign Investors
October 19th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, a report on how – following years of social and political uncertainty triggered by popular uprisings in 2019 – Algeria has updated laws to attract investment: Algeria seeks to breathe new life into its investment landscape with a new investment law. Published at the end of July, the updated legislation aims at […]
Read more »Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline
August 2nd, 2022
Via International Intrigue, a look at the Trans Saharan gas pipeline: Nigeria, Algeria, and Niger have signed a new agreement to build the Trans-Saharan Pipeline, a project designed to transport Nigerian gas to Europe. Securing funding for the project is the first task on their list, and with a rival African pipeline also looking for investors, […]
Read more »Oil and Gas Discoveries Boost Algeria
August 2nd, 2022
Via African Business, a report on three (3) discoveries made in the Algerian desert last week should expand Algeria’s gas and oil deliveries to Europe as the continent looks beyond Russia for gas deliveries: Algeria’s state-owned oil company Sonatrach has announced three major oil and gas discoveries in the Sahara desert. Since the outbreak of […]
Read more »Future of African Oil and Gas
June 10th, 2022
Via McKinsey, a report on how – with momentum for sustainability building – Africa’s oil and gas producing nations have a unique opportunity to embark on an inclusive energy transition and chart a course toward a sustainable future: African’s oil and gas industry is entering a new era. As the world looks to accelerate its […]
Read more »Germany Looking To West Africa For Gas
May 25th, 2022
Via Quartz, an article on how Germany is looking to west Africa to help solve its gas woes: On May 22, Olaf Scholz started a three-day tour of Africa in Senegal—his first since becoming the chancellor of Germany—and said his country wants to help develop natural gas projects off the coast of west Africa. Germany is […]
Read more »Germany Should Look to Africa for Gas, Not Russia
March 20th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, an article on Africa’s potential to provide gas to Germany: With the United States and United Kingdom banning Russian energy exports and the European Union announcing it will reduce Russian gas imports by two-thirds by the end of the year, the West is urgently debating how to replace Russian energy deliveries. 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.