Commerce In Kabul
May 17th, 2013
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on doing business in Afghanistan: Hassina Syed, founder and chief executive of Afghanistan’s Syed Group, seems remarkably calm for a mother of three who has spent time in a crowded Kabul jail for failing to pay protection money to the police and has sent her older children […]
Read more »Oilmen Ready For Risky Push Into Somalia
May 16th, 2013
Via Energy Daily, a look at planned oil development in Somalia: Foreign companies are getting ready to undertake the risky business of exploring for oil in war-torn Somalia, a quest that could trigger new conflict as the Western-backed government struggles to stop die-hard Islamist insurgents. “The world’s leading oil companies are increasingly accepting that their […]
Read more »A Tired Tiger? Vietnam’s Star Is Dimming
May 12th, 2013
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a sobering look at Vietnam: Like other would-be tiger economies, Vietnam faces a trifecta of new threats: a crisis-paralyzed Europe, a faltering America, and a newly spendthrift Japan. Yet the biggest risk to the nation’s future may be old-fashioned nostalgia. It has been 27 years since Hanoi launched the “Doi Moi” reforms […]
Read more »Somalia: Bringing International Bandwidth To Mogadishu
May 10th, 2013
Via Balancing Act, an interesting look at Somalia’s telecom sector: It may be two steps forward and one step back but Somalia is beginning to pick itself up off the ground after years of civil war. In the absence of regulation, a telecoms sector has developed. Now the new Government must put in place regulation […]
Read more »Gazprom Takes A Fall
May 9th, 2013
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting article on Gazprom: After years as Eurasia’s energy bully, Russia’s state-controlled natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, is getting a taste of its own medicine. Even as Gazprom seeks to build the tallest skyscraper in Europe as its new headquarters in St. Petersburg, pressure from Russia’s neighbors led to a 15 percent […]
Read more »ONGC’s $5 Billion Kazakhstan Oil Deal May Fall Through
May 3rd, 2013
Via NDTV, a look at the status of India’s bid to acquire a large stake in the Kashagam oil field: Oil and Natural Gas Corp’s (ONGC) $5 billion deal to acquire US energy giant ConocoPhillips’ stake in a Kazakhstan oil field is likely to fall through as India hasn’t been able to convince the Central […]
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.