Malaysia, Congo, Chad Want To Join OPEC
Via Oil Price.com, a report on some new countries’ ambitions to join OPEC: Chad, Congo, and Malaysia are all lining up to join OPEC, Gabriel Mbaga Obiang Lima, the energy minister of the [...]
Turkmenistan’s Plan B: Electricity Exports
Via Times of Asia, a report on Turkmenistan’s plan to export power to augment its natural gas sales: As prospects to diversify, and increase, natural-gas exports remain uncertain and rather [...]
Afghanistan Breaks Ground on 1,127-Mile ‘Peace Pipeline’
Courtesy of the New York Times, a report on the latest developments around the TAPI pipeline: One of the boldest efforts to date to stabilize Afghanistan through economic development began on Friday [...]
Gwadar vs. Chabahar
Via The Pakistan Observer, a look at the nascent competition between Gwadar and Chabahar ports: Pakistan’s signing of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with China is a milestone of economic [...]
Once-Repressive Uzbekistan In From The Investor Cold?
Via The Financial Times, a report on Uzbekistan: In Uzbekistan’s ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand, near the blue-domed madrassas of central Registan Square, young Uzbeks still jostle for selfies [...]
TAPI Enters Afghan Phase with Little Cash and Many Problems
Via Eurasianet, commentary on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline project: It is the natural gas pipeline project that many have long said could never happen. But the [...]

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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.