The Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) Pipeline
Via RIA Novosti, news that Iran, Pakistan, and India have agreed on a formula for the price of natural gas to be pumped through a pipeline that will link the three countries. According to the report, [...]
Investing in North Korea…
Noticed in today’s Wall Street Journal that Orascom Construction Industries S.A.E. of Cairo is going to invest US$115 million in a North Korean cement plant. Realize there have been private [...]
BRICs & MORE-ter …. and The Curious Case of the Missing N-11
Justin Fox offered an interesting 12 July post on the Time blog titled “Is it really BRICs, or just ICs?” in which he suggests that the use of the term BRIC may be somewhat misleading as [...]
Gazprom reconsiders “going it alone” in Shtokman…
Interesting change of pace by Gazprom: first, allowing foreign participation in the project; and second, the possibility of including an LNG plant in the project which could supply the U.S.  Seems [...]
Kazakhstan … Not Only Oil & Gas, But Uranium As Well
Noticed yet another example of Kazakhstan – in this case, Kazatomprom – extending its influence in the world’s natural resource markets. Given its immense potential as a natural [...]
Should the West Pursue the New Trans Caspian Energy Project?
Enjoyed Vasili Rukhadze’s interesting thoughts on a very strategic issue. You can read his entire article here at Neweurasia.net but, based on his analysis and my own experience in Kazahkstan [...]

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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.