Eni’s Cupboards No Longer Burren
Via the Wall Street Journal, news that Eni SpA has agreed to buy Burren Energy PLC for £1.74 billion ($3.59 billion), boosting Eni’s assets in Congo and giving it a foothold in Turkmenistan. [...]
Not Going Cold Turkey: Tehran and Ankara Work Together
An interesting article from UPI’s John Daly via Energy Daily, that points out that the Bush administration’s inattention to Turkish domestic and foreign policy concerns has produced the [...]
Turkmenistan: Balancing China, Russia, and Europe
As cogently analyzed by Stratfor (subscription required), Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimukhammedov’s recent announcement that a pipeline supplying Russia with natural gas from Turkmenistan [...]
OAO Gazprom’s Unexpected Dow(ry)?
Via Todd Sullivan’s Value Plays, an interesting review of a recent MOU signed between Russian natural gas monopoly OAO Gazprom and Dow Chemical outlining potential cooperation on refining gas [...]
Iran’s Planned Nabucco Pipeline
From Der Spiegel, an interesting look at Iran’s desires to use its massive gas reserves and construction of its planned Nabucco pipeline to wield influence over Europe.  As the article [...]
France: Banking on North Africa
As recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, France has followed China’s lead as a nation looking at banking opportunities in Africa. As the article notes: “…The top three [...]

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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.