Failed States: Potential Investment Opportunities?
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, their annual Failed States Index which looks at the world’s most fragile countries suffering from virulent economic crisis, countless natural disasters, and government [...]
Impact Of Political Turmoil On Iran’s Natural Gas Sector
Via Energy Daily, a report on the impact that the continuing political turmoil sweeping Iran will have upon its pressing need to develop its natural gas sector, which is widely perceived as the [...]
Indonesia’s Energy Sector: Great Potential With Reform
Via Stratfor (subscription required), a detailed analysis of Indonesia’s transition from being a major oil exporter to leaving the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to seeing its [...]
Are Europe’s Gas Pains Soon To Ease?
Via The Economist, a review of the status of various pipeline initiatives under way/under discussion to reduce Europe’s dependence on Russian gas supplies.  As the article notes: TRAGEDY and [...]
Myanmar: Open For Business (For Some)
Via Terra Daily, a report that foreign investment soared in Myanmar in 2008, despite ongoing international sanctions.  As the article notes: “…foreign investment n Myanmar increased more [...]
Iraq: Gas Station To The World?
Via Tom’s Dispatch.com, Michael Klare’s interesting look at whether Iraq will simply become a new petro-state servicing the global economy: “…Iraq is, of course, one of the [...]

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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.