Reweaving the Silk Road
April 20th, 2025
Via The Economist, a look at China’s reconfiguration of its rail links to secure exports to Europe: China says its ties with Russia involve “back-to-back, shoulder-to-shoulder” co-operation. Yet when it comes to concerns about security for its massive exports to Europe, the People’s Republic would rather not depend on its best friend. In December work officially began on […]
Read more »Can Kazakhstan Succeed in Its Transition Toward Clean Energy?
February 12th, 2025
Via The Diplomat, a look at how – faced with climate disasters at home – Kazakhstan is accepting clean energy as a necessity, not just an ambition: The development of clean energy has become a priority for much of the world due to the continued impacts of climate change. One significant consequence of climate change […]
Read more »Chevron Sees 1M Barrels Per Day From Kazakhstan
January 27th, 2025
Via Fortune, a report on U.S. energy giant Chevron’s expectations of a 1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day from Kazakhstan’s Tengiz oil field, which is among the world’s biggest. Meanwhile, an Exxon executive downplayed hopes for a sudden surge of LNG exports. U.S. energy giant Chevron expects Kazakhstan’s Tengiz oil field, one of the largest […]
Read more »How a Burgeoning Industry in Kazakhstan Is Trying to Kickstart ‘Climate-Smart Beef’
December 22nd, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how the central Asian country is working to scale up its livestock industry without adding to global emissions. Experts are skeptical. In 2010, several herds of cows airlifted from North Dakota to Kazakhstan helped spark a burgeoning cattle industry in the former USSR republic. The effort was part […]
Read more »‘Modern Silk Road’ brings booming trade to China-Kazakhstan border
December 9th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at the booming trade at the China-Kazakhstan border: Trade is thriving along the “modern Silk Road,” which passes through a far-flung city on the border of China and Kazakhstan. Khorgos is about 3,500 kilometers due west of Beijing in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Flying over the oil fields of […]
Read more »India-Kazakhstan Cooperation in Critical Minerals Signals a Shifting Regional Approach
November 27th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on growing India- Kazakh cooperation in critical minerals: The critical minerals sector has attracted significant global attention, including from New Delhi and Astana. On November 4, India and Kazakhstan partnered to produce titanium slag, a critical mineral. Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) and Kazakhstan’s Ust-Kamenogorsk Titanium and Magnesium Plant (UKTMP) […]
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.