Archive for the ‘Brunei’ Category

Brunei: Oil in the Imperial Periphery
February 15th, 2025

Via Phenomenal World, an article on Brunei’s unlikely path to independence: The majority of the nearly two hundred sovereign states that exist today were born through decolonization following the end of the Second World War. With the colonial metropole fearing the emergence of unstable and unviable states, smaller territories were often included in larger entities […]

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Brunei Seeks Chinese Investment Amid Diversification Challenges
September 13th, 2023

Via East Asia Forum, a look at Brunei’s efforts to secure Chinese investment amid diversification challenges: As the third-largest oil producer in Southeast Asia and the fourth-largest producer of liquefied natural gas in the world, Brunei is blessed with vast oil and gas reserves. The country has long enjoyed impressive per capita income and living standards, […]

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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.

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