Komatsu Opens Central Asia Hub to Tap Mining Rush for EV Metals
June 23rd, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on growing industry interest in Central Asia’s energy transition metal potential: Komatsu will facilitate deliveries of mining equipment across Central Asia through a new logistics hub in Kazakhstan, with an eye on the region’s reserves of key electric vehicle materials like nickel and lithium. The Japanese heavy machinery maker recently […]
Read more »The Deadly Mining Complex Powering the EV Revolution
June 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on how nickel is pouring into the supply chain from an Indonesian industrial park with a history of fatal accidents: Early in the morning last Christmas Eve, Chinese and Indonesian workers prepared for a maintenance operation at the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park. A complex of factories, smelters and power plants on […]
Read more »Clothing Brand Busayo PutS Nigerian-Influenced Style at Center Stage
June 23rd, 2024
African fashion has been at the center of cultural expression within the continent and its diaspora, but has also evolved into a massive business that oozes identity. Renowned Nigerian American fashion designer Busayo Olupona had a vision to create a contemporary fashion brand that would celebrate the Nigerian diaspora which has now grown into the […]
Read more »The Design-Obsessed Indian Scooter Company With Global Ambitions
June 23rd, 2024
Via Rest of World, a report on Ather Energy, which has earned a place in India’s crowded EV market by designing to meet local needs: Ather Energy, one of the first electric scooter startups in India, dedicated its first five years to research and design innovation to suit local needs. The company has filed 212 […]
Read more »Eni Taps Advisers to Sell €1 Billion Ivory Coast Stake
June 21st, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on Eni’s plans to sell part of its Ivory Coast stake: Italian energy firm could sell up to 30% holding in operations Eni made biggest ever hydrocarbon discovery in Ivory Coast Eni SpA is planning to sell a stake in its Ivory Coast exploration operations in a potential deal that could be […]
Read more »Climate Change Imperils Taliban’s Shift From Opium
June 21st, 2024
Via The Washington Post, a report on how prolonged droughts attributed to climate change are making it hard for Afghans to grow other field crops and fruits, but hardy opium poppies can still thrive: Two years after the Taliban banned opium, Afghan farmers turning to alternative crops are discovering that many no longer grow easily […]
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.