A New Dawn for Afghanistan’s Mes Aynak Copper Mine?
Via The Diplomat, an article on how – with a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the start of work on an access road – the Taliban and China aim to get the Mes Aynak project underway again: [...]
Chad, Equatorial Guinea: When Oil and Development Don’t Mix
Via The Africa Report, a report on Chad and Equatorial Guinea – two countries that benefited from major oil discoveries in the late 1990s. But more than two decades later, despite billions of [...]
The Dark Side of Tunisia’s Phosphate Boom
Via Foreign Policy, an article on the impact that Kais Saied’s government efforts to capitalize on demand for a critical mineral is having upon Tunisia’s environment: In Tunisia’s Gafsa [...]
UAE and Saudi Arabia: Race For Data Center and AI Dominance
Via Diplomatic Courier, a report on how the UAE and Saudi Arabia are heavily investing in data center infrastructure, and the emerging rivalry is for both economic and political reasons: In recent [...]
Sri Lanka’s Underappreciated Asset: Offshore LNG
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Sri Lanka’s development of its natural gas resources will help the country overcome its economic crisis, provide energy security, and lower carbon dioxide [...]
India’s Chabahar Ambitions Amid Web Of Embargo And Secret Pacts
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on India’s Chabahar ambitions amid a web of embargo and secret pacts: Chabahar is India’s first significant overseas port project and has become a key part of New [...]

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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.