As Shell and ExxonMobil Sell Onshore Assets, Are Africa’s Indigenous Producers Ready?
September 5th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a look at whether – as Shell and ExxonMobil sell onshore assets – Africa’s indigenous producers are ready? As oil majors shift focus to deep offshore exploration in Africa, local producers face rising costs and complex challenges in a rapidly evolving industry landscape. A long-term shift by oil majors towards deep […]
Read more »Vroom, Vroom: Cheap Asian Motorcycles Are Transforming African Cities
August 19th, 2024
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at how inexpensive Asian motorcyles are transforming African cities: At the Haojue showroom in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, Gaston Kamo dusts the latest model’s ruby-red fuel tank. “With motorcycles you can go everywhere, even muddy roads,” says the salesman for the Chinese manufacturer. The gleaming 125cc bike costs 1.25m Rwandan francs […]
Read more »Total Hands Security Contract for $20bn Mozambique Gas Project to Rwandan State-Linked Business
July 20th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Total’s decision to hand the security contract for its $20bn Mozambique gas project to a Rwandan state-linked business: A security company backed by Rwanda’s ruling party has been hired to guard TotalEnergie’s giant gas project in Mozambique as Kigali continues its commercial expansion in the country three years […]
Read more »UAE: Dubai Ports World Makes a Play for Africa
May 30th, 2024
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on how DP World, the Dubai-based logistics giant, is both a thriving business and a geopolitical soft power tool: From humble beginnings a half-century ago as the local operator of the two-crane operation at Port Rashid, Dubai Ports World has matured into a global logistics powerhouse. It’s also […]
Read more »UAE Invests In Mozambique’s Natural Gas
May 26th, 2024
Via Al Monitor, a report on UAE’s ADNOC’s plans to invest in Mozambique’s natural gas in its first African foray: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has made its first foray into Mozambique after acquiring a 10% stake in Galp’s Area 4 natural gas concession in the southern African country’s Rovuma basin, the state-run UAE energy […]
Read more »China Steers Course for African Ports In Renewed Diplomatic Push
April 14th, 2024
Via China Strategy, a report on China’s interest in African ports via a renewed diplomatic push” On March 23, the ships arrived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for a five-day stopover before heading to the port of Maputo in Mozambique on April 1 for another five-day tour. While in Tanzania, representatives visited the Dar es […]
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.