Energy Politics and Turkmenistan
July 28th, 2023 Via Modern Diplomacy, a report on Turkmenistan: With vast energy resources, Turkmenistan is a strategically located nation in Central Asia. The natural gas industry is Turkmenistan’s principal [...]
Saudi Arabia’s Dizzying Scheme to Devour the Sports World
July 27th, 2023 Via The New Republic, an article on the kingdom’s insatiable appetite and how its bottomless riches are remaking global sports and culture: ILLUSTRATION BY GUSTAVO MAGALHÃES On June 6, Saudi [...]
Diamonds Are Not Forever: Botswana Plans A Post-Diamond Future
July 27th, 2023 Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at Botswana’s efforts to plan for a post-diamond future: With the end in sight for its mineral success story, Botswana is in a race against time to [...]
Will Mongolia’s Crackdown On Graft Unlock Its Mineral Riches?
July 27th, 2023 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a detailed look at how Mongolia is making sweeping reforms to win over western investors and become less reliant on China and Russia: Thirteen hundred metres beneath [...]
‘How India Transformed in Less than a Decade’
July 27th, 2023 Via The Times of India, a look at how India transformed in less than a decade via the lens of Morgan Stanley analyses: Morgan Stanley analysed the economic transformation of India from 2013 to 2022 [...]
TotalEnergies Plots Drilling Giant Prospect Off Papua New Guinea Coast
July 27th, 2023 Via Upstream Online, a report on TotalEnergies’ plans to explore a potentially giant prospect offshore Papua New Guinea: French supermajor TotalEnergies is planning in 2024 to eventually drill [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.