Pipe Down: A Summary of Central Asia’s Pipeline Wars
October 31st, 2007  As always, an interesting post by Steve Levine, discussing the U.S. failure to match Russia so far in the European pipeline war.  Since I’ve discussed various pipeline (and a few pipe [...]
Vietnam…
October 27th, 2007 A nice reminder from Stockerblog not to forget Vietnam in all the excitement/press related to China, India, etc. As the article points out, there is a lot of activity in Vietnam right now. For [...]
India’s Presence in the Central Asian Energy Market
October 27th, 2007 Via NewEurasia, a report that India ONGC Mittal Energy (a joint venture between oil and gas company ONGC Videsh and steel giant Mittal Investment) acquired a 30 percent stake in an exploration block [...]
Azerbaijan – Projecting Outward
October 27th, 2007  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?
October 22nd, 2007 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
October 22nd, 2007 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 [...]

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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.