Mr. Li, I Presume?
Via TerraDaily, an article on China’s active engagement of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a troubled nation with huge but largely untapped natural resources such as 34 percent of the [...]
Turkmenistan’s High Stakes Poker Game Upon Which Many Promises Have Been Made
From Eurasianet.org, a terrific look at Turkmenistan’s delicate balance of making promises to various regional hydrocarbon players, all without the benefit of a published, independent audit of [...]
China’s Growing Influence in Kazakhstan
As noted in the Eurasia Daily Monitor, Kazakhstan – despite its efforts to symbolically broaden its foreign policy with recent Presidential visits to places such as Syria, UAE, and the Balkans [...]
Eni’s Cupboards No Longer Burren
Via the Wall Street Journal, news that Eni SpA has agreed to buy Burren Energy PLC for £1.74 billion ($3.59 billion), boosting Eni’s assets in Congo and giving it a foothold in Turkmenistan. [...]
Not Going Cold Turkey: Tehran and Ankara Work Together
An interesting article from UPI’s John Daly via Energy Daily, that points out that the Bush administration’s inattention to Turkish domestic and foreign policy concerns has produced the [...]
Turkmenistan: Balancing China, Russia, and Europe
As cogently analyzed by Stratfor (subscription required), Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimukhammedov’s recent announcement that a pipeline supplying Russia with natural gas from Turkmenistan [...]

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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.