Cuba Hoping To Kickstart Offshore Oil & Gas Industry
Via Stasha Macro World, an interesting look at Cuba’s effort to kickstart its offshore petroleum activities: The Cuban oil company Cubapetroleo, or Cupet, is close to a deal with Angola’s [...]
China: Betting On North Korea In Gamble To Save Its Rustbelt
Courtesy of Business Insider, an interesting look at China’s plans to utilize North Korea as part of its strategy to revitalize its NE rustbelt territory: At China’s very farthest limits, [...]
A Global Middle Class? Not Yet
Courtesy of Fast Company, an interesting report on the claim that a global middle class is emerging: People around the world are pulling themselves out of extreme poverty. But outside of China, [...]
China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative
Via Frontier Strategy Group, an interesting look at China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative: Ever since Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed to build a cross-regional economic plan in 2013 to [...]
Angola: A New Normal?
Courtesy of Frontier Strategy Group, an updated look at Angola: Since the end of its three-decade long civil conflict in 2002, Angola has registered strong growth fueled by crude oil exports, [...]
Pakistan Prepares To Proceed With Iranian Pipeline Project
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on an ambitious pipeline plan between Pakistan and Iran: The removal of economic sanctions on Iran will clear the way for Pakistan to pursue an ambitious gas [...]

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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.