Gazprom’s New Field and Enduring Supply Problems
Via Stratfor (subscription required), an very insightful analysis of Gazprom’s new Yuzhno-Russkoye oil and natural gas field, due to come on line Dec. 18. However, as the report points out, [...]
Quick Flip? Oil-Rich Nations Use More Energy, Reducing Exports
Via The New York Times, a very interesting article on how the economies of many big oil-exporting countries are growing so fast that their internal need for energy is reducing the amount they can [...]
Mr. Li, I Presume?
Via TerraDaily, an article on China’s active engagement of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a troubled nation with huge but largely untapped natural resources such as 34 percent of the [...]
Turkmenistan’s High Stakes Poker Game Upon Which Many Promises Have Been Made
From Eurasianet.org, a terrific look at Turkmenistan’s delicate balance of making promises to various regional hydrocarbon players, all without the benefit of a published, independent audit of [...]
China’s Growing Influence in Kazakhstan
As noted in the Eurasia Daily Monitor, Kazakhstan – despite its efforts to symbolically broaden its foreign policy with recent Presidential visits to places such as Syria, UAE, and the Balkans [...]
Eni’s Cupboards No Longer Burren
Via the Wall Street Journal, news that Eni SpA has agreed to buy Burren Energy PLC for £1.74 billion ($3.59 billion), boosting Eni’s assets in Congo and giving it a foothold in Turkmenistan. [...]

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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.