“Small Oil” Ascends
October 27th, 2010 Via Foreign Policy, an interesting report on the rise of “small oil”, upstart companies such as PetroVietnam and Ghana National Petroleum Company.  As the article notes: [...]
A Pan Asian Railroad Linking Singapore and China: One Stop Closer
October 27th, 2010 Via Fast Company, a report on developments related to a rail link from Singapore to Southwest China.  As the article notes: “…Plans for a pan-Asian railroad have been in the works for [...]
Turkmenistan and Russia: New Pipeline Politics?
October 19th, 2010 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of Turkmenistan’s new natural gas pipeline that will take natural gas supplies from deposits in the Karakum Desert and [...]
China, Oil, and A New Great Game: Pipelineistan & The 21st Century Silk Road
October 14th, 2010 Courtesy of CBS News, an interesting report on China’s petroleum ambitions in Central Asia.  As the article notes: “…Future historians may well agree that the twenty-first century [...]
Looking For The Final Frontier…Pakistan to sub-Saharan Africa
October 10th, 2010 Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on one fund’s search for the final frontier of investing.  As the report notes: “…Insparo’s African and Middle East fund [...]
Ecopetrol
October 10th, 2010 Via The Financial Times, an update on Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state oil company.  As the article notes: “[Ecopetrol] is one of the best examples of a creaky behemoth invigorated by [...]

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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.