Azerbaijan – Projecting Outward
 According to a recent Energy Daily report, Azerbaijan – its $21 billion economy expanding at more than triple the rate of China’s in a world of record-high energy prices – has [...]
CHIMEA: A New Hub of International Commerce?
Martin Walker offers an interesting look at the emergence of a new hub of international commerce around the India Ocean which he has dubbed CHIMEA (China, India, the Middle East and Africa) in which [...]
Angola: No. 2 in African Oil Reserves
Via Energy Daily, Angola’s national oil company – Sonangol E.P. – announced that 10 blocks will be offered for tender in a licensing round planned for late 2007, part of its efforts [...]
Central Asian Business Round Up
An interesting round up of news from Central Asia Beat, including the following business & investment tidbits: Finland’s Nokian Tyres will be working with Kazakhstan’s Ordabasy JSC [...]
Turkmen – Afghan – Pakistan Pipe Dreams / Turkmenistan’s Export Dilemma
In a recent analysis, John Daly illuminated the enormous challenges surrounding the long-discussed Turkmen-Afghan – Pakistan pipeline scheme through which those nations could gain access to the [...]
IBSA a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the Race for Resources (Africa Edition)….
Via Stratfor (subscription required), an interesting analysis of the second India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) summit held on Oct. 15-17, most notably IBSA’s influence in Africa and its potential [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.