Angola: No. 2 in African Oil Reserves
October 22nd, 2007 Via Energy Daily, Angola’s national oil company – Sonangol E.P. – announced that 10 blocks will be offered for tender in a licensing round planned for late 2007, part of its efforts [...]
Central Asian Business Round Up
October 20th, 2007 An interesting round up of news from Central Asia Beat, including the following business & investment tidbits: Finland’s Nokian Tyres will be working with Kazakhstan’s Ordabasy JSC [...]
Turkmen – Afghan – Pakistan Pipe Dreams / Turkmenistan’s Export Dilemma
October 20th, 2007 In a recent analysis, John Daly illuminated the enormous challenges surrounding the long-discussed Turkmen-Afghan – Pakistan pipeline scheme through which those nations could gain access to the [...]
IBSA a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the Race for Resources (Africa Edition)….
October 18th, 2007 Via Stratfor (subscription required), an interesting analysis of the second India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) summit held on Oct. 15-17, most notably IBSA’s influence in Africa and its potential [...]
More on the Axis of Oil: Venezuela Pumps (Up) Cuba’s Oil Industry
October 18th, 2007 News via Energy Daily that Cuba and Venezuela have signed agreements aimed at strengthening their economic ties, particularly in the energy sector, where Caracas hopes to bolster Cuba’s oil [...]
Dubai’s Limitless Appetite for SE Asia
October 18th, 2007 According to a report in The Shanghai Daily, Limitless — Dubai World’s property arm — agreed to buy a 30-percent stake in PT Bakrie Swasakti Utama, a unit of Indonesia’s [...]

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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.