Original Seven Sisters: Old & Struggling
August 10th, 2008 From Newsweek, a timely reminder of the struggles facing the original Seven Sisters and the rise of the new oil majors.  As the article notes: “…The escalating [BP] dispute is emblematic [...]
Ka$hakhstan
August 10th, 2008 Via Arabian Business, an interesting look at the wave of Middle Eastern investment targeting Kazakhstan. Up for grabs is the vast and untapped commodity wealth of a country the size of Western [...]
Ecuador Gains Help to Maintain Petroleum Production
August 10th, 2008 From Bloomberg, a report that State-owned energy company PetroEcuador and Ivanhoe Energy Inc., a Canadian oil and natural-gas producer, will sign an oil production deal in which Ivanhoe will invest [...]
Sinochem: Hunts for Assets Overseas
August 8th, 2008 Via Energy Daily, news that China’s Sinochem Corp., a state-owned oil trading conglomerate, has entered into an agreement to explore oil and gas in two blocks in Indonesia. As the article [...]
Central Asia’s Seaport: Gwadar vs. Chabahar
August 7th, 2008 Via Registan.net, an excellent analysis of both Iran and Pakistan’s strategies to create strong economic and transport ties with Central Asia and beyond via two new seaports: Gwadar in Pakistan [...]
Turkey and Iran: Natural Gas Deal
August 7th, 2008 According to The International Herald Tribune, Turkey and Iran will probably sign a natural gas deal during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s expected visit to the Turkish capital, [...]

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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.