Sudan: Second Chance At An Oil Boom?
December 3rd, 2018 Via SudaNow magazine, commentary on Sudan’s hydrocarbon future: Though it is an ordinary meeting, but the upcoming gathering of OPEC and non-OPEC allies in Vienna on Thursday carries a [...]
Turkmenistan
December 2nd, 2018 Via TRT World, an updated look at Turkmenistan: Turkmenistan is a strategic nation in the region, with deep influence over Russian expansionism in the region, stability in Pakistan and Afghanistan, [...]
Releasing Pressure: Solving Iran and Turkmenistan’s Gas Dispute
November 23rd, 2018 Via The Iran Project, an interesting report on why Iran and Turkmenistan need to solve their gas dispute amicably: Since the last few months, Iran and Turkmenistan have got embroiled in a bitter [...]
Ethiopia Offers Investors a Tantalizing, If Challenging, Promise
November 22nd, 2018 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at Ethiopia’s investment potential: Highlights Addis Ababa will proceed carefully toward the partial privatization of large [...]
Business In Africa
November 20th, 2018 Via McKinsey, an interesting article on doing business in Africa: Simon London: Hello, and welcome to this edition of the McKinsey Podcast, with me, Simon London. When you think about Africa, what [...]
Uzbekistan Steps up Railway Diplomacy
November 20th, 2018 Some commentary on Uzkekstan’s influence on Central Asia: An official delegation from Uzbekistan, led by Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, visited Pakistan on November 1–2. Kamilov and his [...]

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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.