Eurasia’s Investment Potential
October 6th, 2008
From Bloomberg, an optimistic look at Central Asia’s investment potential. As the article notes: “…Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan don’t tend to come to mind when searching for safety. Nor do Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the Caucasus region. Yet there’s increasing merit to taking the road less traveled, literally and figuratively. “Amid […]
Read more »China’s Growing Economic Influence in Central Asia
October 1st, 2008
From The Foreign Policy Association, a nice summary of China’s growing influence in the Central Asian states. As the article notes, recent projects include: “-A 960-kilometer oil pipeline from Western Kazakhstan to Western China has partially started operations and should be carrying 20 millions tons of the black gold annually in only a few years […]
Read more »China: A Third West-East Pipeline in the Plans?
September 12th, 2008
As reported by Energy Daily, China may build a third west-east gas pipeline in a bid to meet strong demand along its economically vibrant eastern seaboard. As the reports states: The pipeline will start from the western Xinjiang region and is likely to end in Fujian province in the southeast, supplying natural gas to the […]
Read more »Chinese – Turkmen Energy Ties
September 1st, 2008
As reported by Energy Daily, the president of energy-rich Turkmenistan recently pledged to significantly boost gas deliveries to China following talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao. As the article notes: “…Each year the future gas pipeline will deliver not 30 billion cubic meters, as before, but 40 billion cubic meters of gas,” Turmenistan President Gurbanguly […]
Read more »Russia’s Chess Match in The Middle East & North Africa
August 1st, 2008
From The National, an interesting analysis of Russia’s recent diplomatic and trade activities in the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to enhance its geopolitical clout and gain access to, and at least partial control over, the region’s oil and gas reserves. As the article notes: “…Among the former global superpower’s tactics: linking […]
Read more »Turkmenistan’s Relationship with Gazprom
August 1st, 2008
Via Energy Daily, an interesting look at evolving relationship between Turkmenistan and Gazprom, specifically Turkmenistan’s ability to play off Chinese and Western interest in its reserves as a way to keep Gazprom “in line”. As the article notes: “…Eurocrats perturbed by Gazprom’s growing dominance of Europe’s natural gas market and its hardball capitalist tactics, take […]
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.