Algeria: Potential To Ease Europe’s Chill This Winter?
Via Global Voices, commentary on Algeria’s potential to compensate for the shortage of Russian gas supplies to the EU: The world had barely stablised from a global pandemic when geopolitical [...]
Indonesia Considers Opec-Style Cartel For Battery Metals
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how Indonesia – the world’s largest nickel producer – is exploring a potential global governance structure similar to that used by oil [...]
Will Sisi Take Egypt’s Economy Out of the Military’s Hands?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how the global crisis has magnified the fragility of Egypt’s state-driven economic model and forced it to take out new multilateral loans: When [...]
Amer International Group (aka Zhengwei): China’s Copper King
Via Week In China, a look at how Amer International Group (better known as Zhengwei) -a copper firm – outgrew Huawei to become Guangdong’s top firm: Taking first place in a government-backed [...]
Minerals and China’s Military Assistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Via The Diplomat, an article on how Beijing’s growing investments in strategic resources in the DRC go hand in hand with increased military assistance intended to secure those assets: China’s [...]
Azerbaijan Warns Investment Needed To Increase EU Gas Flows
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Azerbaijan’s need for additional infrastructure investment in order to provide additional gas to the EU: Azerbaijan has warned the EU that it will [...]

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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.