UAE’s LuLu Group Set For IPO Next Year As It Plans Expansion
Via The National, a report on the UAE’s LuLu Group’s planned expansion: Abu Dhabi’s LuLu Group International is planning to launch an initial public offering next year and has hired [...]
Libyan PM Defends Controversial Hydrocarbon Deal With Turkey
Via AfricaNews.com, a report on Libya’s controversial hydrocarbon deal with Turkey: Head of Libya’s Tripoli-based government, Abdelhamid Dbeibah, has defended a hydrocarbon exploration [...]
Africa’s Longest Oil Pipeline Takes Shape In Niger
Via Oil & Gas Daily, a look at Africa’s longest oil pipeline project: Chinese and Nigerien workers haul giant steel pipes over mounds of earth as heavily armed soldiers keep guard. At Gaya [...]
Indonesia Plans to List Unit of Flagship Oil Group Pertamina This Year
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Indonesia’s plans to list a unit of its flagship oil group Pertamina this year: Indonesia plans to list a unit of its government-run oil group [...]
Pipe Dreams (cont’d): TAPI
Via Times of Central Asia, the latest on a decades-long vision that seems unlikely to truly advance any time soon: Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said that the delegation of the [...]
Nigeria’s $25 Billion Gas Line May Get Investment Nod Next Year
Via Bloomberg, a report on a potential $25B gas line from Nigeria to Morocco: An investment decision on a $25 billion gas pipeline from Nigeria to Morocco that could supply the fuel to Europe will be [...]

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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.