Mexican Oil: Pemex-isstic About the Future
December 30th, 2007 Via The Economist, an interesting analysis of Mexico’s hydrocarbon industry and reserves, detailing the Mexican energy ministry’s rather shocking forecast that total oil production would [...]
Africa and the Middle East: FT’s Next Investing “Hot Spot”
December 30th, 2007 Today’s Financial Times points out the increased interest in North African and Middle Eastern stock markets, with several well-known funds aiming to invest up to US$1 billion in the region. [...]
Dubai: Iran’s Hong Kong
December 30th, 2007 An interesting article in Terra Daily recently, comparing Dubai’s current & cultural associations with Iran to that which Hong Kong historically played for China (before the mainland opened [...]
Peru’sing Oil Reserves in South America
December 29th, 2007 An interesting article in The Wall Street Journal, detailing Dallas-based Hunt Oil Company’s big bet that it can make money in Peru and other spots that big oil companies won’t touch. As [...]
Kyrgyzstan’s Oil
December 29th, 2007 While Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan understandably garner most of the attention related to Central Asia’s hydrocarbon reserves, New Eurasia recently offered an intriguing look at [...]
Iran and Latin America: An Axis of Unity
December 29th, 2007 An interesting story in The San Antonio Express-News on Iran’s recent partnership with Nicaragua and Venezuela to help finance a $350 million deep-water port on Nicaragua’s wild Caribbean [...]

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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.