Turkey, Iraq Seek Closer Trade Ties: Want To Build A New Trade Route To Europe
Via Bloomberg, a report on Iraq and Turkey’s efforts to convince Gulf states to help finance a $17 billion trade route stretching from Iraq’s Faw Port in its southern Basra province to [...]
Vietnam’s VinFast Enters Africa EV Market Aia Ghana Distributor
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, an article on Vietnam’s VinFast, one of the few international EV businesses to target Africa, which recently announced plans for Ghana within weeks of making deals in [...]
US Firms Set To Invest $1 Billion In Philippines
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on the Biden administration’s efforts to elevate economic relations with Manila to keep step with the recent enhancement of security ties: A number of [...]
Mozambique Lays Down Legislation To Govern Revenue From Natural-Gas Exports
Via Engineering News, a report on Mozambique’s plans for its natural gas export earnings: Mozambique’s council of ministers approved a decree for the nation’s new sovereign wealth fund [...]
US Player Secures Three Deepwater Blocks in Africa’s Final Offshore Frontier
Via The Energy Year, a report on Liberty Petroleum, an ambitious privately-owned US player, efforts to gain entry into one of Africa’s last undrilled frontier zones by signing three production [...]
North America: Who’s Who in African Mining
Via The Africa Report, a list of key North American players and companies that are angling for a piece of the African minerals pie, with support from their governments: Long dominated by Chinese, [...]

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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.