Iraq Signs Preliminary Gas Deal With Turkmenistan
Via Energy Daily, a report that Iraq has signed a ‘preliminary’ gas deal with Turkmenistan Iraq on Friday signed an initial agreement with Turkmenistan to import much-needed gas for the [...]
Sudan’s Economic War Intensifies As Sanctions Widen
Via Middle East Eye, an article on Sudan’s economic war: The war in Sudan has been raging for close to six months, with the Sudanese army and its partner turned enemy, the Rapid Support [...]
Clean Energy Projects Are Booming Everywhere. Except in Poor Nations.
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on clean energy projects in developing countries like Congo where a big obstacle is the lack of loans, a subject of intense disagreement between richer and [...]
Mongolia’s Search for a Third Way
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on what the U.S. can offer a country stuck between China and Russia: The visit in early July of Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov to Beijing would have [...]
Riyadh: An Emerging Global Cuisine Hub
Via Arab News, a report on Riyadh’s ascent on the international gastronomic scene: “Gastronomic explosion” has accompanied Saudi capital’s transition from administrative capital to [...]
Syria’s Economic Woes Create New Fractures and Power Struggles
Courtesy of Rane’s STRATFOR Worldview, an updated look at Syria’s economic woes: In Syria, growing economic distress and frozen reconstruction efforts are threatening the legitimacy of [...]

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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.