Rosneft, Reliance Agree Biggest Ever India-Russia Oil Supply deal
December 16th, 2024 Via Reuters, a report on a new oil supply deal between Rosneft and Reliance, the largest ever India-Russia oil supply deal: Rosneft to ship 500,000 bpd of various crude grades Biggest India-Russia [...]
Guyana: Low-Carbon Model for Resource-Led Development
December 16th, 2024 Via the Atlantic Council, a report on Guyana’s low-carbon model for resource-led development: Guyana had embarked on an ambitious journey toward sustainable development long before ExxonMobil’s [...]
Big Tech Will Scour the Globe in Its Search for Cheap Energy
December 16th, 2024 Via Wired, a report on the global search for inexpensive energy to power our AI-enabled future: On the southern tip of Malaysia lies the state of Johor, renowned for its beaches and mountainous [...]
Myanmar Civil War Casts Shadow over China’s CMEC Corridor
December 16th, 2024 Via Geopolitical Monitor, a look at the shadow that Myanmar’s civil war is casting over China’s CMEC Corridor: Over the past decade, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) investments [...]
Afghanistan’s Horse Power: What History Can Teach Today’s Petrostates
December 16th, 2024 Via Fortune, an article on how the fall of Afghanistan’s horse power is a lesson to today’s petrostates: power based on a strategic commodity is fleeting. Afghanistan’s Taliban government [...]
Experts Consider US Approach to Africa’s Critical Minerals Under Trump
December 13th, 2024 Via S&P Global, a report on potential US approaches to Africa’s critical minerals under Trump: HIGHLIGHTS Trump’s commitment to strengthening global critical mineral supply chains [...]

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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.