Sudan, South Sudan: A Pipeline Attack Amid Oil Talks
June 14th, 2013 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of a recent pipeline attack in South Sudan: The oil pipeline facility in Heglig, South Kordofan state, Sudan. Summary Sudanese army officials [...]
Welcome To Mogadishu
June 2nd, 2013 Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Somalia: Boys repairing fishermen’s nets on Mogadishu seafront You can see where their heads hit the roof,” says a member of Somalia’s bomb squad. [...]
China’s Global Reach
June 2nd, 2013 Courtesy of the New York Times, an OpEd on the global reach of China’s state capitalism: THE combination of a strong, rising China and economic stagnation in Europe and America is making the [...]
A Looming Showdown Over Iraqi Kurdish Oil
June 1st, 2013 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed analysis of another showdown that is building between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the government of Iraq over oil exports, only this [...]
Myanmar: Unique Opportunities, Major Challenges
May 30th, 2013 Via McKinsey, a summary of a new report on Myanmar: Myanmar is a highly unusual but promising prospect for businesses and investors—an underdeveloped economy with many advantages, in the heart of [...]
Philippines Defies Asia Slowdown With Best Growth Since 2010
May 30th, 2013 Via Bloomberg, a report on the Philippine’s economic growth: Philippine growth unexpectedly accelerated to the fastest pace in almost three years, defying a regional slowdown as President [...]

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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.