The Thirsty Dragon Deals With Chavez
An interesting report in the Christian Science Monitor, detailing a new oil exploration deal between China and Venezuela – China’s largest single investment in an overseas energy project [...]
Angola + Brazil = The World’s First Supermajor from The Developing World
Via Stratfor (subscription required), a highly interesting report about an emerging partnership between state-owned Angolan oil company Sonangol and Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras).  The [...]
Big Oil = Dinosaurs at the Tar Pit?
As we’ve discussed before, Big Oil is quickly losing its historical global primacy to state-owned oil and natural gas companies in Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, i.e. the New [...]
Venezuela’s Regional Geopolitics of Oil & The Unsustainability of Petrocaribe
Several articles have recently been tracking Venezuela’s increasing efforts to utilize its energy reserves & expertise to influence politics in Latin America. As Energy Daily points out, [...]
Russia’s Energy Secret and The Chinese Threat
A very interesting article in Newsweek, which details that – despite its aggressive energy-related dealings – Russia can barely meet its own demand.  While reading this report, I [...]
Serbia: Russia’s Strategic European Petroleum Beachhead?
Via a report by UPI, Russia has offered Serbia $1.5 billion for control of its oil industry and additional deals related to a gas pipeline and a gas underground storage. The deal would give Russia [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.