Talks With Rebels Have Consequences for Colombia’s Oil Sector
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at the impact of a recent escalation in militant attacks on oil pipelines in eastern Colombia which have taken about 3 percent of [...]
China: Drilling Holes In The Top Of The World
Via Quartz, a report on how China’s appetite for resources is taking them to Tibet: Take a picture; it may not look like this for long. Chinese oil and gas explorers have drilled a deep [...]
Iran Bullish On Oil Potential
Via Energy Daily, a report on Iran’s oil potential: Iranian Petroleum Minister Bijan Zanganeh said the country is bent on increasing the level of oil production despite Western economic [...]
Asia’s Next BRICS?
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on how – As growth in the BRICS slows – many of the new economic stars are from the Asia-Pacific: In a recent announcement, global credit insurer [...]
Petroleo Brasileiro: A South American Sleeping Monster?
Via Guru Focus, an article on Petroleo Brasileiro: My advisor during college was the son of a retired Brazilian military official. Before turning to academics he was an advisor for the Brazilian [...]
The Uganda “Trap”
Courtesy of Emerging Markets Insights, a detailed analysis of Uganda: Kampala’s skyline Apparently Ugandans very rarely say no; they much prefer to say maybe. As I sit (without a previous [...]

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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.