First CPEC Hydropower Project Starts Operations
Via Pakistan’s Technology Times, an article on how – on June 29 – the Karot hydropower project (HPP) was put into full commercial operation, a major milestone in the progress of the [...]
Second Coming Of The BRICS?
Via East Asia Forum, a look at the BRICs, 13 years after their first meeting in 2009: When the inaugural BRIC summit took place in 2009, it was a moment of relative triumph for its members. While the [...]
The Era of WhatsApp Banking Is With Us
Via Quartz Africa, commentary on how banking via WhatsApp is spreading from east Africa to far beyond: How about forgetting all the ATM cards and banking apps you have and instead transacting through [...]
Major Project Of China’s West-To-East Power Transmission Program Starts Operation
Via Technology Times, an article on a major part of China’s west-to-east power transmission program which kicked off operation Friday, a further boost to the coordinated development among [...]
Green Hydrogen Hype Puts Mauritania On The Map
Via fDi, an article on Mauritania which is pinning its hopes on a green hydrogen project five times the size of its economy: One of the least visited countries in the world, Mauritania is being [...]
Azerbaijan’s Latest Steps Toward Becoming a Regional Digital Hub
Via Jamestown Foundation, a report on Azerbaijan’s latest steps toward becoming a regional digital hub: After implementing a number of trans-Eurasian energy and logistics mega-projects, such as [...]

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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.