Afghanistan’s Minerals Await Vital Railroads
Via BusinessWeek, an interesting article on Afghanistan’s logistics challenge: At the Naibabad freight terminal near the northern Afghan town of Mazar-e-Sharif, workers rush to unload wheat and [...]
Can Mozambique Be The Next LNG Hotbed?
Via Foreign Policy Association, commentary on Mozambique’s potential as a global LNG hotbed: Like many other African countries, Mozambique has enormous potential, but there are many gaps to [...]
India: Advancing Trade Plans With Iran
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of closer economic ties between India and Iran: Summary India is trying to open up more direct trade corridors with Central Asia. Two of [...]
Myanmar’s Economic Potential
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting graphic of  infrastructure and supply lines along the China-Myanmar border: Myanmar’s land borders, which abut India [...]
Russia-China Gas Deal…Maybe Later
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at the possibility of a strategic gas deal between Gazprom and the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC): As the global market for natural gas is transformed, [...]
Cold Rush: Asian Giants Look To The Arctic For Oil
Via The Diplomat, an article on the race between India and China to build a presence in the energy-rich Arctic region: After a lengthy courtship, China and India formalized their relationship with [...]

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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.