Angola’s New Oil Refinery Brings Hopes and Fears
July 22nd, 2023
Via AllAfrica, a report on Angola, a nation rich in crude oil but which currently has to import the fuel it needs. A new refinery could change that: Wearing a hard hat, safety glasses and high-visibility vest, project manager Martin Jooste gives a tour of the rain-sodden construction site that he oversees in the tiny […]
Read more »Angolan Airport Set to Become Symbol of BRI
July 20th, 2023
Via China Daily News, a report on China’s support of Angola’s aviation industry: Aviation Industry Corp of China, the nation’s leading aircraft maker that has sold many jets and helicopters to Africa, is helping an African nation build one of the largest airports on the continent. The Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport in Luanda, […]
Read more »How the West Can Forestall Green OPECs
July 9th, 2023
Courtesy of Semafor, commentary on how the West could head off the creation of new OPEC-like producer cartels for critical resources such as lithium by inviting mineral-rich Latin American and African nations to join the existing Minerals Security Partnership (MSP): Western countries should head off the creation of new OPEC-like producer cartels for critical resources […]
Read more »Trafigura-Led Group to Invest $555 Million in Angola Railway
July 7th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a look at plans by a group of investors led by commodity trader Trafigura to invest as much as $555 million in a railway project that will link the Angolan port of Lobito to neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. The consortium, known as Lobito Atlantic Railways, will spend $455 million on the […]
Read more »Angola: Continued Efforts to Speed Up Economic Diversification
July 6th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, an interesting look at the recent appointment of an economic reformer in Angola that should bode well for continued economic growth: José de Lima Massano, renowned for his competence, was appointed Angola’s Minister of State for Economic Coordination. His main task will be to put an end to fuel subsidies, […]
Read more »New Data Centers Supercharging Cloud Computing In Smaller African Countries
June 24th, 2023
Courtesy of Semafor, a look at how developers are ramping up the construction of data centers in African nations outside of the continent’s biggest economies such as Uganda, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Angola, Cote D’Ivoire and Tanzania: A new generation of data centers are being built in Africa’s smaller economies, fueling a […]
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.