Iranian, Syrian Oil Ministers Emphasize Bilateral Energy Cooperation
Via Tasnim News, an article on recent moves between Iran and Syria to cooperate on energy: Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji and his Syrian counterpart Firas Hassan Kaddour underscored the importance [...]
Uzbekistan’s Nascent Push for Green Energy
Via The Diplomat, a look at how – amidst the energy and electricity crisis – Tashkent’s pursuit of renewables is as much about addressing the threat of climate change as it is about [...]
China’s BYD Steps Up Globalization Strategy with EV Plant in Uzbekistan
Via the South China Morning Post, a look at how China’s BYD has stepped up its globalization strategy with an electric-car plant in Uzbekistan targeting Central Asia: The Warren Buffett-backed [...]
The Fall of Russia’s Gas Giant Dulls a Key Tool of Putin’s Power
Via Bloomberg, a report on how Gazprom has lost much of its scare factor and its export ambitions are now chiefly in China’s hands: Russian President Vladimir Putin overplayed his hand by trying [...]
China’s Economic Stake in the Middle East: Its Thirst for Oil
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how China is the largest oil importer by far from Saudi Arabia and from Iran, highlighting the risk it faces if the war in Israel and Gaza were to broaden; [...]
U.S., EU To Support African Railway Development To Counter China
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, an article on U.S., EU to support African railway development in the mineral-rich corridor in Angola, DRC, Zambia as China’s Belt and Road slows: The United States and [...]

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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.