Will Sonatrach’s Hydrocarbon Discovery Make Algeria A Key Energy Partner For Europe?
April 14th, 2023 Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at a new energy discovery in Algeria: Following a record-breaking year in 2022, the national company Sonatrach has announced the discovery of six new deposits in [...]
China-Russia Cooperation in Africa and the Middle East
April 14th, 2023 Courtesy of The Diplomat, commentary on how Africa and the Middle East provide conducive conditions for China and Russia to advance their shared and separate agendas: Beijing aspires to restore [...]
Qatar Gives China Share of Landmark Natural Gas Field
April 14th, 2023 Via Oil and Gas Daily, a report on a recent Qatari decision to give China a share of landmark natural gas field: Chinese oil giant Sinopec on Wednesday became the first Asian firm to get a stake in [...]
Chinese Company Offers $10B Investment In Afghanistan’s Lithium Deposits
April 14th, 2023 While the sum seems rather high, The Frontier Post reports on a purported $10B offer by a Chinese firm for Afghanistan’s lithium deposits: The Afghanistan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said on [...]
Saudi Arabia Launches Special Economic Zones
April 14th, 2023 Via Geo Politics of South Asia and MENA, a report on Saudi Arabia’s four (4) new Special Economic Zones: According to Saudi Gazette, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, who is [...]
Investments Rise in Chabahar Free Zone
April 13th, 2023 Via the Tehran Times, an article on growing investment interest in the Chabahar port free zone: In this century, transit and routes for transporting goods and passengers are extremely important. One [...]

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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.