Pakistan’s IP Gas Pipeline: A Road To Stability
Via Eurasia Review, an article on the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline (IP) project: Pakistan is facing an acute energy crisis and there is a huge gap in demand and supply. Pakistan, being an energy [...]
Avoiding Africa’s Resource Curse
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs (subscription required), a very interesting look at some ways Africa could avoid a “resource curse”: In October 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a [...]
Russia And Azerbaijan Outline Energy Cooperation
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), some analysis on Russia and Azerbaijan’s plans for energy cooperation: As the geopolitical dynamics in the Caucasus continue to shift, Russia and [...]
Why Hasn’t Mongolia Developed Stronger Ties with Kazakhstan?
Via The Diplomat, an interesting report on Mongolia’s regional alliance strategy: Since 1990, Mongolia has pursued a multidirectional foreign policy, forging strong ties with such global [...]
Kyrgyzstan: Future Economic Colony Of Russian Gazprom And China?
Via the Emerging Markets blog, an interesting report on Kyrgyzstan: The sale of Kyrgyzgaz company for a symbolic price of US $1 to Russian gas monopoly Gazprom OAO has been finalized and may [...]
Libya’s City States
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on Libya’s city states: By all rights, Misrata, Libya’s third-largest city, ought to be a mess. The late Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi considered 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.