China and Oil-backed Loans in Angola
January 1st, 2012
Via China In Africa, an interesting look at China’s oil-backed loans in Angola: The story of China in Angola has been told so often, and almost always those telling the story neglect the larger context of how Chinese banks fit into a pre-existing system whereby Angolans financed so much of their government spending for so […]
Read more »Oil Interests Push China Into Sudanese Mire
December 26th, 2011
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on how China’s growing appetite for energy has led it into the messy politics and tensions of Sudan. As the article notes: At a restaurant along the River Nile offering crocodile and ostrich meat, officials of the world’s newest — and desperately destitute — nation hosted a lunch […]
Read more »Afghan Rail Plan To Boost Mineral Exports
December 20th, 2011
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on the Asian Development Bank’s interest in raising $1bn to expand a newly-completed stretch of railway in Afghanistan into a countrywide network to export iron ore and copper to global markets. As the article notes: “…Afghanistan is due to open the 75-km link between the northern city of […]
Read more »Bangladesh: A Chinese Stitch-Up?
December 18th, 2011
Via The Financial Times, a report on Bangladesh’s low-wage manufacturing potential vis-a-vis China. As the article notes: “…Bangladesh could be this decade’s great usurper if it manages to sidle into the low-value manufacturing gap China is leaving in its wake as it moves up the value-adding ladder. And if a report by McKinsey, the consultancy, […]
Read more »SOCAR, So Good: Future Oil And Natural Gas Production from Azerbaijan
December 18th, 2011
Via The Oil Drum, an interesting article on Azerbaijan’s future oil and natural gas production. As the report notes: “…The President of SOCAR, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, is touring the United States at the moment. His goal is, in part, to gain support for the Baku Higher Petroleum School, a place to generate […]
Read more »An Introduction to Azerbaijan
December 5th, 2011
Courtesy of The Oil Drum, an in-depth look at Azerbaijan: “…Azerbaijan sits in a region of states along the southern Russian border that show the promise of holding some of the last large deposits of fossil fuel yet to be fully developed. Location of Baku, and Azerbaijan (Google Earth)The first fields to be developed were […]
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.