Opening A Trans-Caspian Corridor
April 25th, 2023
Via Geopolitical Futures, an article on the potential opening of a trans-Caspian corridor: A trans-Caspian energy and trade corridor has long captured the interest of many nations that would benefit from its creation, and the war in Ukraine has made things only more urgent. The reasons it has never come to fruition are fairly obvious; […]
Read more »Kazakhstan Proposes Gas Pipeline Linking Russia, China
February 28th, 2023
Via Oil and Gas Daily, a report that Kazakhstan has proposed a new gas pipeline linking Russia and China: Kazakhstan on Friday said it had discussed building a gas pipeline linking Russia and China as Moscow pivots to Asia amid conflict with the West.The pipeline could also supply regions in the expansive central Asian republic, which […]
Read more »Kazakhstan’s Uranium Industry and the Middle Corridor Come Together
January 31st, 2023
Via The Diplomat, an article on Astana’s bet on the Middle Corridor as a route to access the international energy market without Russia: The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), commonly known as the Middle Corridor, is going nuclear as Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company, Kazatomprom, announced in December the delivery of natural uranium to Canada. As Russian ports and transport […]
Read more »Central Asia’s Economic Prospects in 2023
January 11th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a look at Central Asia’s economic prospects in the year ahead: The World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report warns of a sharp downturn, with the clouds of a possible recession gathering amid high inflation and interest rates, sluggish investment, and the reverberations of the Russian war in Ukraine. According to the World Bank’s […]
Read more »Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan’s Doomed Hopes of Using China As Hedge Against Russia
December 10th, 2022
Via South China Morning Post, commentary on why Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan’s hopes of using China as hedge against Russia could be doomed: Central Asia’s increasingly tense relations with Russia have made closer ties with China attractive, but achieving that is not without its problems Far from Beijing proving a hedge against Moscow, the opportunities on […]
Read more »Russia’s Proposal for a ‘Gas Union’ With Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
December 9th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, an article on Russia’s efforts to find new export markets for its piped gas or users of its gas infrastructure following its invasion and Central Asian states’ fear that Russia could use the states’ increased economic dependence on Russia as a result of the deal to secure political concessions from the countries in the […]
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.