Russia’s Turkish Delight: South Stream
August 7th, 2009 Via Stratfor (subscription required), analysis of the recent Russia/Turkish agreement to allow Turkish territory to be used for the ambitious Russian-led natural gas project known as South Stream. As [...]
Gazprom Aquires Control Of Kyrgyzgaz
August 6th, 2009 Via Oil and Gas Eurasia, a report that Gazprom is to buy controlling stake in Kyrgyz national gas company.  As the article notes: “…Gazprom will acquire a controlling stake in [...]
PDVSA: Approaching Critical Condition….
August 3rd, 2009 Via El Universal, a very dire outlook on state-run oil holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa).  As the article states: “…Pdvsa has little cash flow.” Pdvsa is looking for money to [...]
Trans-Caspian Pipeline Politics
July 31st, 2009 Via The Oil and Glory, an interesting look at the continued “pipeline politics” surrounding the Nabucco project and the entire trans-Caspian region.  As the article notes: [...]
Russia and Cuba: Plans To Cooperate On Offshore Oil Exploration
July 30th, 2009 Via The Financial Times, a report that Russia and Cuba have signed contracts that ”set the bases” for Russian oil company Zarubezhneft to search for oil in Cuba’s part of the Gulf of Mexico.  [...]
Chinese Marketers Look Overseas
July 29th, 2009 Via Advertising Age (subscription required), a detailed look at how internationally-minded Chinese companies are trying to build brands and retail operations overseas, such as Li Ning (who hopes its [...]

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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.