Gazprom’s Interest in Bolivia
December 30th, 2007 The Financial Times recently reported that Gazprom is considering a $2bn gas investment in production capacity in Bolivia which has vast gas reserves, second only to Venezuela in Latin America. As [...]
Dubai’s Debt Cloud – Shifting Sands?
December 30th, 2007 With all the bullish news about Dubai these days, it was refreshing to see The Wall Street Journal’s analysis of the city-state’s recent spending spree and the debt that it is [...]
Gas’ing Up: China Pays For a Central Asian Pipeline
December 30th, 2007 I noticed via The International Herald Tribune, that China’s biggest oil company – China National Petroleum Corp. – has agreed to spend US$2.2 billion to help build a natural gas [...]
Mexican Oil: Pemex-isstic About the Future
December 30th, 2007 Via The Economist, an interesting analysis of Mexico’s hydrocarbon industry and reserves, detailing the Mexican energy ministry’s rather shocking forecast that total oil production would [...]
Africa and the Middle East: FT’s Next Investing “Hot Spot”
December 30th, 2007 Today’s Financial Times points out the increased interest in North African and Middle Eastern stock markets, with several well-known funds aiming to invest up to US$1 billion in the region. [...]
Dubai: Iran’s Hong Kong
December 30th, 2007 An interesting article in Terra Daily recently, comparing Dubai’s current & cultural associations with Iran to that which Hong Kong historically played for China (before the mainland opened [...]

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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.