Can PDVSA Recover?
August 9th, 2012
Via The Journal of Energy Security, a look at Venezuela’s PDVSA: The Venezuelan oil industry can be pictured as a toothless tiger resting on its haunches before a huge slice of raw meat. The country sits on significant hydrocarbon resources that remain undeveloped due to severe management, technical and financial constraints driven by the application […]
Read more »NATO, Post-2014 Afghanistan, And The Energy Dimensions of Security
August 8th, 2012
Via The Journal of Energy Security, some thoughts on the direction that Afghanistan’s energy security will take within a NATO context in the future: Afghanistan History is waiting to be made in a post-2014 Afghanistan. As the Alliance’s 2012 Chicago Summit Declaration points out, NATO’s role will soon undertake a historic shift from a combatant […]
Read more »Cuba Oil Production: Between A Rock And A Hard Place
August 8th, 2012
Via the Financial Times, a short article on Cuba’s offshore oil ambitions: Cuba has found itself between a rock and a hard place in its quest to find oil in its territorial waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Several rocks and several hard places, in fact. After a discovery that failed to reach commercial proportions […]
Read more »Sudan-South Sudan Oil Deal
August 8th, 2012
Courtesy of The Council On Foreign Relations, a report on US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s efforts to help arrange a Sudan-South Sudan oil agreement: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) meets with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir at the Presidential Office Building in Juba August 3, 2012. (POOL New/Courtesy Reuters) The agreement […]
Read more »Colombia: Different Than Brazil
August 8th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a look at Colombia: With his deep, chanting voice and contagious laughs he can convince you everything is going according to plan. “We have systematically and purposefully over-performed,” says Juan Carlos Echeverry, Colombia’s finance minister. For him, it is a virtuous circle: confidence, which leads to job creation, which leads to […]
Read more »Indonesia’s Consumer Power
August 6th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Indonesia: Is there no stopping the Indonesian consumer? Second quarter GDP figures out on Monday showed the economy growing 6.4 per cent year on year, up from 6.3 per cent in the previous quarter and a healthy chunk more than the Bloomberg consensus of 6.1 per cent. […]
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.