The Giants Are Coming: Tentative Western Oil Majors Line Up for Myanmar Hydrocarbon Glory
September 28th, 2012
Via Energy Tribune, a look at interest in Myanmar’s petroleum reserves: Since President Obama’s easing of sanctions against the Southeast Asian country in July, American as well as foreign companies are flocking to Myanmar for business — all sectors are on the table including banking, insurance, pharmacy, manufacturing, services and energy. General Electric was the […]
Read more »Mexico’s Growing Middle Class
September 28th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a look at Mexico’s growing middle class: Mexico has come in for positive news of late, thanks in part to a forecast published by Nomura Securities that showed Mexico surpassing Brazil as Latin America’s largest economy by 2022. While that’s certainly possible, a more realistic scenario would involve Mexico growing at the […]
Read more »India: Venezuela’s New Petro-Amigo
September 27th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, an interesting look at the blossoming relationship between India and Venezuela: Venezuela’s gigantic oil reserves are coveted the world over – especially the Orinoco extra-heavy crude belt, which is one of the planet’s few remaining largely untapped reserves of hydrocarbons. Investment conditions in Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela may not be ideal, but […]
Read more »A Somali Spring?
September 27th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a report on Somalia: After the twin suicide attacks that killed 14 people in Mogadishu last week and an assassination attempt on the president a little more than a week before that, predictions of a Somali Spring would seem to be, at the very least, premature. But buried beneath the grisly headlines […]
Read more »What Can Myanmar Sell?
September 27th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at what Myanmar may export to help drive its economy: Myanmar used to be a major exporter of many products – from rice to clothing to its world-famous red rubies. But crippling sanctions left the country with few willing buyers aside from China and India who just wanted […]
Read more »5 Reasons to Believe in the Indonesian Miracle
September 21st, 2012
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an interesting commentary on Indonesia’s economic potential and why it is on track to be the world’s seventh largest economy: When most people think of Indonesia today, they think of beaches and temples or of its famously teeming cities, but this country of 240 million and counting is a much more […]
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.