Petro-politics and the Kashagan Showdown…
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
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”
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
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 [...]
China’s Second West-East Pipeline Project
From RIA Novosti via Energy Daily, I noticed that The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) will finance the construction of a pipeline across China, to supply Central Asian gas to the [...]
A New North-South Iranian Pipeline?
According to today’s WSJ, Iran is planning to construct a new north-south oil pipeline in a bid to raise the volume of crude oil swap capacity with its northern neighbors from 150,000 barrels a [...]

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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.