Will India Be Imperial in Russia’s Far North?
Via The Financial Times, an update on India’s bid for Imperial Oil’s Russian assets that we have discussed before.  As the article notes:that “…only two events could delay [...]

As recently reported by The Guardian, China crossed the line first in the race for big oil contracts in post-Saddam Iraq and has gained a head start over Western oil majors in the competition for [...]
Brazil: Drilling Under Petrobras?
Via The Economist, an interesting analysis of the Brazilian government’s debate whether to create a new, wholly state-owned, oil company to maximize its profit from the new fields recently [...]
Betting on Iraq’s Economy: The Next Surge?
Received an interesting email blast from Nicholas Vardy’s Global Guru and, while I normally read such with high degrees of skepticism since they are aimed at selling something, I thought some [...]
Azerbaijan: Facing a New Energy Landscape
Via Stratfor (subscription required), an insightful look at Azerbaijan and the new energy landscape facing it in light of Russia’s military defeat of Georgia. As the article notes: [...]
Shrinking Giants, Resource Nationalism, and the New 7 Sisters
As recently reported by The Wall Street Journal, oil production has begun falling at all of the major Western oil companies, and they are finding it harder than ever to find new prospects even though [...]

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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.