Emerging Powers and the Future of American Statecraft
April 10th, 2024
Via the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a new report on how, collectively, emerging powers in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East are growing in their geopolitical weight and diplomatic ambition. How closely do they align with the United States when it comes to Russia and China? What drives their decisions on the […]
Read more »Who Controls Argentina’s Lithium?
April 10th, 2024
Via Diálogo Chino, a detailed report on Argentina’s lithium industry, where nearly one million hectares of the country’s lithium-rich salt flats are controlled by just five companies: Argentina’s lithium, with all its promises of bringing foreign currency and economic progress, is spread out across millions of hectares of unique ecosystems: salt flats. Below these sparse expanses, […]
Read more »Argentina, Brazil In Talks To Reverse Bolivian Gas Pipeline Amid Shortage
April 7th, 2024
Via Offshore Technology, a report on a preliminary proposal to alter the pipeline’s direction has not found favour with Bolivia, exposing Brazil to fluctuating liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices: Energy companies from Argentina and Brazil have initiated discussions to reverse the flow of a Bolivian natural gas pipeline that links the three nations, reported Reuters. This […]
Read more »EV Companies Hungry For Argentina’s Lithium, Leaving Little for Argentines
April 1st, 2024
Via Rest of World, a report on Argentina’s lithium sector – where local projects stall as the mineral’s fourth-largest producer exports to the U.S. and China, and courts Elon Musk: Residents of Isla Paulino — a remote island that is not part of Argentina’s power grid — were promised a lithium-powered solar park, using locally […]
Read more »Texan Bitcoiners Start Mining In Argentina, Where Peso Is In Freefall
March 31st, 2024
Via CNBC, an article on a Texas bitcoin company’s operations in Argentina: Giga Energy, based in Houston, has teamed up with Exa Tech and Phoenix Global Resources to mine bitcoin in Argentina. The province of Mendoza is home to the world’s second-largest shale gas reserve. At the small pilot site, Giga is turning otherwise wasted […]
Read more »Argentina Eyes Risky Gamble on Gas Exports
March 15th, 2024
Via Dialogo Chino, an article on how Argentina’s economic woes, climate commitments and long-term outlook cast doubt on its ambitions to export LNG: Under its new president Javier Milei, Argentina is hoping to move ahead with its plans to process and export liquefied natural gas (LNG), taking advantage of the potential of the vast Vaca Muerta oil […]
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.