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 [...]
Azerbaijan’s Contract(s) of the Century
Enjoyed this interesting analysis of the Caspian pipeline wars. We have discussed the Trans-Caspian Pipline Project in earlier posts but, in this report, John C. K. Daly takes a close look at [...]
An OPEC for Natural Gas: Born in South America?
As noted in Xinhua earlier this month, Bolivia, Argentina and Venezuela signed an accord to create the Organization of Gas Producing and Exporting Countries of South America (Opegasur), which is [...]

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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.