“It’s Electric!”: China’s Power Play in Latin America
Via Wilson Center, a report on China’s focus on energy generation and transmission projects in Latin America: For a decade, China’s major electricity companies have been laser focused on [...]
Savannah Energy: Battered By Chad, Focuses On South Sudan
Via Energy Voice, an article on how – at the same time that Savannah Energy was announcing the cancellation of its deal to buy the Petronas assets in Chad – it set out an even more [...]
Côte d’Ivoire, DRC, Kenya… Top-Performing Economies In Africa
Via The Africa Report, a look at the top performing economies in Africa: The continent is experiencing an uneven economic recovery, with significant variations from one country to another, according [...]
A Gas OPEC? Turkmenistan Being Pushed To Follow Russia’s Lead In Gas Games
Via Radio Free Europe, an article on how – while China has been Turkmenistan’s top buyer of natural gas for more than a decade – Russia has regained some leverage over Ashgabat and [...]
A Chinese Businessman on Doing Business Inside North Korea
Via The Diplomat, commentary from a Chinese businessman doing business inside North Korea: The land route between Hunchun in China and Najin-Sonbong in North Korea was recently reopened after being [...]
The Age of Energy Insecurity: How the Fight for Resources Is Upending Geopolitics
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, a look at how the fight of resources is upending geopolitics: As recently as 18 months ago, many policymakers, academics, and pundits in the United States and Europe were [...]

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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.