The Nigerian Petroleum Co. – Nigeria’s Aramco?
September 14th, 2007 News from the Energy Daily that Nigeria will replace the Nigerian National Petroleum Co. with the Nigerian Petroleum Co., which analysts say will function more like a state-owned oil firm modeled [...]
Gazprom’s Vertical Ambitions … At Home and Abroad?
September 13th, 2007 The International Herald Tribune speculated about Gazprom’s vertical ambitions in a short note today. According to the report, “….Gazprom, which is controlled by the Russian [...]
Venezuela and China Increase Ties
September 13th, 2007 Today’s Energy Daily reports that Venezuela and China are expanding their oil ties, with their respective state petroleum companies stating that they will spend more than $10 billion to develop [...]
Al Noor Islamic Bank and The Middle East: An Aptly-Named Investing “Hot House”
September 12th, 2007 A pair of interesting articles on the rise of Middle Eastern financial institutions, courtesy of the WSJ.  First, was Gregory Corcoran’s comments on Dubai’s ruling sheik’s plans [...]
Dubai(‘s) World?
September 12th, 2007 Given the continued prosperity and ascendancy of Dubai & the United Arab Emirates, it will be important to watch their local firms expand globally. The WSJ recently offered an interesting look at [...]
OMV, Iran, and Yemen
September 12th, 2007 An interesting WSJ article on Austrian oil-and-gas company OMV AG which, after several acquisitions in recent years, is now the biggest oil-and-gas player in Central and Eastern Europe, with sales of [...]

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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.