China’s EV Strategy
September 21st, 2022
Via Asia Power Watch, an interesting look at China’s EV strategy: According to the successive Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, transportation is a major polluter with around 7.3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. 97% of transportation-induced greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions are CO2 from fuel combustion. Among its recommendations to mitigate […]
Read more »Laos and New Silk Road: On Track To Dependence on China?
September 20th, 2022
Via Der Spiegel, a report on how Laos’ new high-speed rail connection connecting the capital to China is a boon for many but is it a luxury it can really afford? They are all gathered in front of the railway station. Mothers from the capital with infants in their arms and holding hands with small […]
Read more »Uganda Confirms Mega Pipeline Project Despite European Criticism
September 20th, 2022
Via The Africa Report, an article on Uganda’s determination to proceed with an oil pipeline mega-project despite European criticism: Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni announced on 16 September that the Lake Albert oil megaproject, planned with the French group TotalEnergies, would go ahead despite a European Parliament resolution criticising “human rights violations” against opponents. The project “will […]
Read more »Pipeline Politics Prominent at SCO Summit
September 20th, 2022
Via the Asia Times, an article on how China – while it can’t openly support Russia in Ukraine – has lent a hand by vowing to build game-changing Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline: Negotiations to build a new pipeline designed to transport annually 50 billion cubic meters of gas from Russia to China through Mongolia […]
Read more »Why Xi Jinping Chose Central Asia for His First Post-COVID-19 Trip
September 18th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, a report on why Xi Jinping chose Central Asia for his first post-COVID-19 trip and how the region has long served as a testing ground for Beijing’s economic and foreign-policy ambitions: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s decision to make Central Asia the site of his first foreign visit since the coronavirus pandemic began is […]
Read more »Russia Says Pipeline To China Will Replace Nord Stream 2
September 16th, 2022
Via Oil & Gas Daily, an article on Russia’s decision to build a new pipeline to China to replace Nord Stream 2: A Russian pipeline to China will replace the Nord Stream 2 gas link to Europe, abandoned amid the Ukraine conflict, Moscow’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Thursday. Asked in an interview with Russian television […]
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.