Increasing Ties Between China and Turkmenistan
Via Energy Daily, an insightful analysis of the growing ties between China and Turkmenistan.  As we have recently discussed on this blog in earlier posts, China National Petroleum Corp. announced [...]
Frontier Markets – Now Part of Mainstream (Media) Thinking?
As noted in a recent US News & World Report article, many investors are engaged in the hunt for the next generation of emerging markets.  And, as we’ve discussed in this blog before, [...]
Peak Nationalism: The New Seven Sisters in an Era of $100 Oil
Two very interesting looks at impact that the high price of oil is having upon petro-states and the New Seven Sisters. The first, from the Economist, notes that while oil is now almost five times [...]
Gazprom’s African Gas Grab
From The Financial Times, a report that Gazprom is offering to invest in Nigeria’s energy infrastructure in return for the chance to develop some of the biggest gas deposits in the worlds, a [...]
Uzbekistan and A Russian Energy Battle: Part of Lukoil’s Capital Flight Plan?
Via Stratfor (subscription required), a highly interesting analysis of Uzbekistan’s status as a large natural gas producer that is locked into Russia’s interests, even though it has many [...]
Emerging South-South Trade & Engagement: The Rise of Chimea
Several interesting articles on the rapid emergence of South-South trade and the sudden influx of Chinese and Indian technologies representing the “browning” of African technology, which [...]

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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.