Pipeline Politics: A Proposed Turkmenistan – Europe Connection
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of a proposed Turkmenistan – Europe pipeline: Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov (R) attends the opening ceremony [...]
North Korea: An Emerging Regional Crossroads
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of North Korea’s potential as a regional crossroads in Asia: North Korea has attracted increased attention in recent weeks, [...]
How The Kurds Got Their Way: New Transitional Zones of Economic Cooperation In The Middle East
Via Foreign Affairs, an interesting report on the emergence of Keep on truckin’: guarding fuel trucks in Haj Umran, Iraqi Kurdistan, July 2010. The surge of ethnic and sectarian strife in Syria and [...]
Development Via Regional Integration – Mongolia’s Chance For A Prosperous Future
Via the Asian Development Bank, a look at how Mongolia could boost its economy through careful regional integration: Regional integration offers Mongolia the opportunity for a more prosperous future. [...]
Sinopec’s $1.2bn deal With Lukoil: China Moves Deeper Into Central Asia
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on Sinopec’s recent acquisition of Lukoil assets in Kazakhstan: Lukoil has agreed to sell its stake in several oil projects in Kazakhstan to Sinopec [...]
Delays At Kazakhstan’s Kashagan Energy Project Could Benefit Russia
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an analysis of how delays in Kashagan could benefit Russia: A general view on June 30, 2013, shows the Bolashak oil plant on the Kashagan offshore oil [...]

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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.