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 »US Commitments To Angola Highlight Shifting Strategies
June 19th, 2023
Via The African Energy View, a look at Us commitments to Angola: Not since the Cold War have countries in the Global South featured so prominently in the thinking of the world’s major powers – something clearly visible in the shifting patterns in energy markets and renewable investments. For many, that presents an opportunity. Angola’s […]
Read more »DRC and Angola Finalize Oil Deal With Chevron
June 10th, 2023
Courtesy of Reuters, an article on a recent agreement between The Democratic Republic of the Congo and its southern neighbor Angola to split up an offshore oil block that they have been fighting over for 50 years. Under the proposed agreement, DRC and Angola would each take 30% of the block, and the US company […]
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.