The Geopolitics of Oil Refining: China’s Entry into a Venezuelan-Brazilian Oil Deal
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on China’s support of a faltering deal between Venezuelan state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and Brazilian energy [...]
Mozambique: The World’s Newest Petro-State
Via Oil and Glory, a report that U.S. and Italian companies say they have found the natural gas equivalent of more than 4 billion barrels of oil offshore from Mozambique.  As the article notes: [...]
Emerging Markets – Decoupled From The Crisis?
Via Emerging Markets Insight, a highly interesting pair of charts analyzing the results of Frontier Strategy Group’s proprietary model to test the assumption that “emerging markets are [...]
Turkmenistan Slams Russian Attempt To Hinder Project To Build Gas Pipeline Supplying Europe
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report that energy-rich Turkmenistan lashed out recently at what it says is a Russian attempt to stymie the creation of a natural gas supply route to Europe.  As [...]
Kazakhstan’s Asia Shift
Via The Silk Road Intelligencer, a report that Kazakhstan is leaning further towards Asia in economic matters: The key question at Kazakhstan’s annual oil and gas conferences in October – [...]
BP Pipeline – Late But Good
Via The Financial Times, a commentary onBP’s recently announced plans to use the existing infrastructure of Turkey and Azerbaijan to bring gas to the Turkish-Bulgarian border where it would be [...]

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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.