Chevron Invests $2bn In Venezuelan Oil
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Chevron’s recent decision to invest $2bn in Venezuelan oil: While many inhabitants of Venezuela’s north-western state of Zulia are screaming blue [...]
Deal of the Century: Will Chinese Investment Save Congo?
Courtesy of the Foreign Policy Association, an interesting article on China’s investment in the Congo: Twenty-four trillion dollars.  It is a number that beggars the imagination, almost 40% of [...]
The World’s Fastest Growing Economy: Mongolia
Via The Atlantic, a look at Mongolia … part of a new class of countries that, like the Middle Eastern states that got rich selling oil to the West, have hitched their economies to [...]
YPF: Investment Up, Dividends Down, Operational Plans TBA
Via The Financial Times, a report on the latest YPF shareholders’ meeting: Tuesday’s meeting of YPF shareholders in Buenos Aires was most notable for its interminable length – more than six [...]
Energy’s Era Of Abundance: Winners And Losers In The Age Of Plenty
Courtesy of Foreign Policy’s Oil and Glory, a look at winners and losers in the new age of energy abundance: We are suffering whiplash: For nearly four decades, OPEC — the cartel formally [...]
Reviving Mexico’s Economy
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting article on Mexico’s economy and how it could be revived: Mexico’s tepid economic performance in the last decade has been a major disappointment — [...]

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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.