Pakistan’s China Gamble
Via Foreign Affairs, a report on Pakistan’s decision to rely on Chinese funds: In July, a popular uprising in Sri Lanka toppled the government and sent its president scurrying into exile. The [...]
Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline
Via International Intrigue, a look at the Trans Saharan gas pipeline: Nigeria, Algeria, and Niger have signed a new agreement to build the Trans-Saharan Pipeline, a project designed to transport [...]
Oil and Gas Discoveries Boost Algeria
Via African Business, a report on three (3) discoveries made in the Algerian desert last week should expand Algeria’s gas and oil deliveries to Europe as the continent looks beyond Russia for gas [...]
China’s BRI Staggers and Stalls in Indonesia
Via the Asia Times, an article on how the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail was supposed to be China’s signature BRI project in Indonesia but it isn’t working out that way: For the frustrated [...]
Russia: Using Sudan’s Gold To Fund Ukraine War Effort
Via CNN, a report on Russia’s alleged plundering of gold in Sudan to boost Putin’s war effort in Ukraine: Days after Moscow launched its bloody war on Ukraine, a Russian cargo plane [...]
Sri Lanka’s State-Owned Enterprises: A Big Part of Its Economic Problems
Via The Diplomat, a look at Sri Lanka’s state-owned enterprises whose loss-making operations are a huge drain on government coffers: Sri Lanka is in an unenviable position, and its policy makers [...]

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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.