US Firms Set To Invest $1 Billion In Philippines
March 18th, 2024
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on the Biden administration’s efforts to elevate economic relations with Manila to keep step with the recent enhancement of security ties: A number of leading American corporations are set to announce more than $1 billion in investments in the Philippines, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said yesterday. Raimondo made […]
Read more »Mozambique Lays Down Legislation To Govern Revenue From Natural-Gas Exports
March 18th, 2024
Via Engineering News, a report on Mozambique’s plans for its natural gas export earnings: Mozambique’s council of ministers approved a decree for the nation’s new sovereign wealth fund legislation, governing how one of the world’s poorest nations spends earnings from an estimated $91.7-billion in natural-gas exports in the coming decades. Introducing the law was a key […]
Read more »US Player Secures Three Deepwater Blocks in Africa’s Final Offshore Frontier
March 18th, 2024
Via The Energy Year, a report on Liberty Petroleum, an ambitious privately-owned US player, efforts to gain entry into one of Africa’s last undrilled frontier zones by signing three production sharing agreements (PSAs) covering promising blocks offshore Somalia: Liberty Petroleum has signed PSAs for three deepwater exploration blocks off Somalia, Upstream Online reported on Friday. Liberty […]
Read more »Idris Elba ‘Dreams Big’ with Sierra Leone Eco-City Plan for Sherbro Island
March 17th, 2024
Via BBC, a report on Idris Elba’s eco-city plan for Sherbro Island in Sierre Leone: Hollywood actor Idris Elba has a “big dream” for Sierra Leone, the West African nation where his father was born – to regenerate a beautiful island off its coast and turn it into an eco-friendly “smart city”. “Originally we went […]
Read more »Could Oman Lead the Green Hydrogen Revolution?
March 17th, 2024
Via The Business Year, a look at Oman ambitious energy transition plan and hopes to become a leading producer of green hydrogen: The export of petroleum has fueled the growth of Oman’s economy since the 1960s. The Sultanate’s energy sector is now trying to present the world with another export: hydrogen. Last winter, the inaugural Green Hydrogen Summit Oman (GSHO) was […]
Read more »South African Ports Fail to Gain From Diverted Red Sea Traffic; Namibia and Madagascar Gain
March 16th, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on how Namibia and Madagascar are gaining from diverted Red Sea traffic: Madagascar, Namibia, among those benefiting from rerouting South Africa’s port problems see it miss out on some traffic Africa’s inefficient and aging ports are hampering the continent’s chances of capitalizing on a surge in ship traffic that’s avoiding […]
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.