Zimbabwe’s First Oil-Gas Well Signals New Era For Foreign Investment
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at how successful drilling for oil, gas and helium in northeast Zimbabwe shows that the country is open for business: The company said in May that light oil, gas [...]
U.S. Apathy Paved the Way for China in Africa
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, commentary on the need for the U.S. to rethink how it engages Africa around true competition and tangible deliverables, meaning things that Africans need and want: In [...]
South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe: Descent Into Energy Darkness?
Courtesy of The Africa Report, strong insight into Southern Africa’s energy poverty: To observers, it’s incomprehensible that countries with active perennial waterways – via Zambezi River [...]
Beijing and Washington Are Battling Over Africa’s Green Future
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how the global energy transition depends on building partnerships with African states. In March 2023, three renewable energy players—Conjuncta from [...]
International Competition Over Turkmenistan’s Transport Routes Intensifies
Via Jamestown Foundation, a report on how international competition over Turkmenistan’s transport routes has intensified: As Turkmenistan has been closed off from the rest of the world for most of [...]
Nusantara: Building A New “Green” Capital From The Ground Up
Indonesia is attempting to build a green, walkable city from scratch. It’s a big, bold idea championed by Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo and motivated, in part, by the fact that the capital [...]

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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.