Dubai’s DP World Signs Deals With China Seaport Companies In Latest BRI Push
Via Al Monitor, a report on new DP World agreements with China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan port that will boost its Dubai station project as part of China’s Road and Belt Initiative: Dubai’s [...]
The Shell-Backed Gas Project Poised To Profit Iran
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Shell’s Iraqi joint venture which will draw power from plant whose revenues mostly flow to a Tehran-based company: An Iranian company is the biggest [...]
20 African Startups To Watch In 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a ranking of 20 high potential African startups: Remember these names: In a few months, these companies will probably make headlines on news sites – specialised or [...]
Bolivia’s Economic Model Is Running Out of Gas
Via World Politics Review, commentary on how Bolivia’s hydrocarbon-led economic model is running out of gas: In the past 15 years, the Bolivian economy tripled in size and poverty was cut in half, [...]
Kazakhstan: Eurasia’s Next Middle Power
Via National Interest, a look at Kazakhstan’s rise as a middle power: Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is certainly on a path to enhance his country’s diplomatic profile by [...]
China and Sudan: An Investment in Peace?
Courtesy of The Diplomat, commentary on the potential that Beijing could hold the key to any future peace in Sudan: Sudan is now in the fourth week of intense military confrontations in the ongoing [...]

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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.