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India and Central Asia
June 3rd, 2008

As recently presented by the Foreign Policy Association, India has recently increased its diplomatic and strategic movements in Central Asia. Given that we examined China’s interest in Central Asia in a previous post, we wanted to offer this analysis of India’s growing interests as well: …India has many reasons to desire greater influence in Central […]

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China’s Second West-East Pipeline Project
August 29th, 2007

From RIA Novosti via Energy Daily, I noticed that The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) will finance the construction of a pipeline across China, to supply Central Asian gas to the country’s south and east. “…The 7,000 km (4,349 mile) pipeline with design capacity of 30 billion cubic meters per year is expected to go […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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