Out of Africa: EV Battery Firms Look To Lock In Raw Materials
Via Week In China, an article on how African battery firms are working to lock in raw materials from Africa: “A skilled woman cannot cook without rice,” warned the Southern Song Dynasty poet and [...]
Future of African Oil and Gas
Via McKinsey, a report on how – with momentum for sustainability building – Africa’s oil and gas producing nations have a unique opportunity to embark on an inclusive energy transition [...]
Growth Engine: China To Build A New Railway Through Kyrgyzstan
Via Week In China, an article on China’s plans to build a new railway through Kyrgyzstan: When a new railway line through Kyrgyzstan last came up for serious discussion five years ago, the [...]
Egypt Signs €8B Deal With Siemens For High-Speed Rail System
Via Deutsche Welle, a report on Egypt’s plan to build the world’s sixth-largest rail network, with tracks connecting cities along the Nile with the Red and Mediterranean seas: [...]
China-Laos Railway: Next Stop – Thailand
Via Silk Road Briefing, an article on the Sino-Thai railway that is currently under construction: The China-Laos Railway which opened late last year, is being extended through to Thailand. The Laos [...]
Green Upheaval: New Geopolitics of Energy
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, an article on the new geopolitics of energy: It is not hard to understand why people dream of a future defined by clean energy. As greenhouse gas emissions continue to [...]

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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.