An Iranian Exploration Deal With Italy
Via Shana (Iran’s Petroenergy Information Network), news that the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and Italian company Edison SpA signed a contract on the exploration of Dayyer Block, an [...]
Challenges & Opportunities Facing Emerging Markets in the Middle East & North Africa
In a recent article published by Knowledge@Wharton, Howard Pack (a professor of business and public policy at Wharton) and Marcus Noland (a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International [...]
BCG’s Global Challengers
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) recently came out with their annual list of Global Challengers, i.e. 100 large and particularly successful companies that are based in rapidly developing economies and [...]
Pipe(dreams) and Plans: Condensed into a Pipette
As always, a very interesting post by Steve LeVine focused primarily on the withdrawal of Thomas Pickering, the senior U.S. statesman who was to lead the high-level U.S. pipeline campaign on the [...]
Frontier Markets: Turning Tables on Traditional Concepts & Making Up for Lost Time
As noted in this report from Seeking Alpha, frontier markets are apt to continue to become more and more common considerations for investors. In fact, even though this blog is partially oriented [...]
Big Oil: Merging Into the Future?
Having recently examined the possibility of the first Supermajor from the developing world being established (via a link between Angola and Petrobras), we must not forget that Big Oil still exists [...]

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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.