How Egypt Benefits From Gas Agreement With Israel
Via Al Monitor, an article on Egypt and Israel’s recent agreement to establish a pipeline connecting Israel’s offshore Leviathan natural gas field to the liquified natural gas terminal in [...]
Competing with China’s Digital Silk Road
Via The Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), commentary on China’s Digital Silk Road: Former U.S. secretary of state Dean Acheson’s call to create “situations of strength” [...]
Chinese Power Loans Fueling A Debt Trap In Pakistan
Via Asia Times, an article on how Chinese power loans are fueling a debt trap in Pakistan: Pakistan is the latest nation struggling to repay Chinese loans extended under the Belt and Road [...]
Striking Oil Is No Antidote for What Ails Cambodia’s COVID-hit Economy
Via Geopolitical Monitor, an article on the potential impact that an oil discovery will have upon Cambodia’s economy: In the final days of 2020, Cambodia extracted its first crude oil from the [...]
Uzbekistan Prioritizes Pakistani Over Iranian Ports
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on how Tashkent – in an effort to access seaports at lower costs and shorter distances – may look to Pakistani ports as the answer: Tashkent has been [...]
Oil Company OMV Petrom Leaves Kazakhstan
Via The Diplomat, an article on the decision of another investor to leave Kazakhstan, highlighting the worsening business climate: At the end of December, OMV Petrom sold its assets in Kazakhstan, [...]

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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.