Turkish Investment in Iranian Natural Gas
September 6th, 2007 Thanks to STRATFOR (link to site only; article requires a subscription), I noted Turkish Petroleum Corporation’s (TPAO) announcement that it is pressing ahead with plans to invest $3.5 billion [...]
Iranian Oil Swaps
September 3rd, 2007 An interesting analysis of Iran’s efforts to seek out oil swaps via John C.K. Daly and Energy Daily. As Daly points out, five nations share the Caspian’s coastline — Azerbaijan, [...]
Petro-politics and the Kashagan Showdown…
September 2nd, 2007 Strongly recommend this comprehensive background post on the current crisis involving the Kazakh government and the international consortium developing the country’s Kashagan field. Of [...]
Petrobras – No Longer a Petrosaurus
August 30th, 2007 An excellent article in today’s WSJ on Petrobras, one of the New Seven Sisters. I highly recommend a complete read, but of particular note was the following: “…Today, Petrobras [...]
Ecopetrol: Out of the Chavez “Shadow”
August 29th, 2007 The WSJ’s Annelena Lobb took an interesting look at the public market debut of Colombian state-run energy giant Ecopetrol earlier this week. According to the article, “….Ecopetrol [...]
CNOOC Defends Its African Strategy
August 29th, 2007 CNOOC defended its drive for oil in Africa in today’s Financial Times, such as its deal last year when it and South Atlantic Petroleum paid $2.7bn for a 45 per cent stake in Nigeria’s [...]

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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.