Can Azerbaijan Help Europe Kick Its Russian Gas Habit?
May 9th, 2022 Via Radio Free Europe, an article on Azerbaijan’s potential to fill supply gaps caused by Russian sanctions and restrictions: Russia may be using missiles and bombs in its invasion of Ukraine, [...]
Will Morocco Hit An Oil Jackpot?
May 9th, 2022 Via The Africa Report, a look at how Morocco – with its promising prospects, attractive tax incentives, an avalanche of exploration permits – is pulling out all the stops to develop black [...]
YouScribe Takes On Amazon In Africa
May 9th, 2022 An interesting look at how YouScribe – a digital reading platform with more than one million French-language books, newspapers and audiobooks – has amassed hundreds of thousands of [...]
Dangote’s Timely Fertilizer Plant Pays off As Prices Soar
May 6th, 2022 Via African Business, an article on Dangote’s new Nigerian fertilizer plant: What better time to launch a fertiliser plant than when global prices are at their record highs? That’s exactly [...]
Russia Looks To Cash In On Afghanistan Opportunities
May 6th, 2022 Via Russia Briefing, commentary on Russia’s interest in Afghanistan: Afghanistan is a US$1 trillion commodities and transit bank for Russian and Chinese supply chain needs Eight months after US [...]
China Completes Cabinda Port Project
May 6th, 2022 Via Clingendael, a report on a large-scale Chinese investment in Angola: China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) completed the construction of a marine passenger terminal in Cabinda [...]

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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.