Peru’sing Oil Reserves in South America
December 29th, 2007 An interesting article in The Wall Street Journal, detailing Dallas-based Hunt Oil Company’s big bet that it can make money in Peru and other spots that big oil companies won’t touch. As [...]
Kyrgyzstan’s Oil
December 29th, 2007 While Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan understandably garner most of the attention related to Central Asia’s hydrocarbon reserves, New Eurasia recently offered an intriguing look at [...]
Iran and Latin America: An Axis of Unity
December 29th, 2007 An interesting story in The San Antonio Express-News on Iran’s recent partnership with Nicaragua and Venezuela to help finance a $350 million deep-water port on Nicaragua’s wild Caribbean [...]
A Shifting Balance between Gazprom and Rosneft in Russia?
December 29th, 2007 Came across Strator’s (subscription only) interesting analysis of Gazprom’s desire to purchase at least 50 percent of Rosneft’s prized subsidiary, Tomskneft, a move indicating that [...]
Iran and Malaysia Cooperate To Develop Gas Fields
December 29th, 2007 Stratfor (subscription required) recently noted that Iran and Malaysia agreed to develop the Golshan and Ferdows natural gas fields in southern Iran. As the article indicates, the $16 billion [...]
A New Vietnam – China Highway: Part of An Increased Web of Asian Trade Corridors
December 15th, 2007 The International Herald Tribune recently reported that plans for a four-lane highway from Hanoi to Kunming are expected to be confirmed soon. While this will definitely lead to the greater [...]

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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.