Foreign Investment In Turkmenistan’s Petroleum Sector
Via Eurasia.net, commentary on Turkmenistan: State newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan this week divulged some interesting and closely guarded information about the level of foreign investment into the [...]
Chinese CNPC-led Group Discovers New Oil Field in South Sudan
Via S&P Global, a report on a new oil field find in South Sudan: A consortium led by China’s state-run CNPC has made a new oil discovery in South Sudan’s northeastern Upper Nile state [...]
Afghanistan: Radical Economic Planning Needed
Via The Frontier Post, commentary on Afghanistan’s economic woes: In most of modern history Afghanistan has been a less developed economy, at some instances more underdeveloped than others, the [...]
All May Not Be Smooth Along China’s Digital Silk Road
Via The Lowy Institute, commentary on the digital Silk Road: Make no mistake about China’s vast and continuous trajectory of technological expansionism. Even as the US aims to [...]
Russia: In Danger Of Being Overrun By China’s Belt and Road
Via Asian Nikkei Review, commentary on a new Eurasian order is in the making, with Beijing in the driver’s seat: Russia greenlighted in early July a 2,000-km highway construction project [...]
China’s Belt and Road Is Getting a Reboot
Via The Washington Post, an article on China’s One Belt, One Road By many accounts, China’s Belt and Road Initiative has been a monumental success: Since 2013 more than 130 countries have [...]

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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.