Great Game Moves East: Somalia Oil Exploration
Via Global Policy, an interesting article on Somalia’s oil potential: After turmoil hit Somalia in 1991, oil firms, aid groups, and even embassies evacuated. Now over 20 years on, oil firms are [...]
Identifying Top Provincial Opportunities In China
Via Emerging Markets Insights, an interesting look at China’s provincial opportunities: Companies are expanding beyond coastal provinces into inland central and west provinces to leverage low [...]
China’s Expanding Involvement in the Latin American Energy Sector
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of China’s involvement in Latin America’s energy industry: Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas announced July 6 that one of [...]
Trouble in Emerging-Market Paradise
Courtesy of Project Syndicate, an article examining the plight of the BRICS: During the last few years, a lot of hype has been heaped on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). [...]
Azerbaijan: When It Comes To Pipelines, It’s Not Personal, It’s Strictly Business
Via Eurasia Review, an interesting commentary on the Nabucco pipeline failure: Just like the protagonist in the eponymous opera, the Nabucco pipeline, the one-time leading option for carrying natural [...]
Sudan, South Sudan: Outsiders Try Diplomacy to Prevent Oil Stoppage
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on South Sudan South Sudan has been gradually decreasing its oil production over the last week in response to Sudan’s continued threats to [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.