PDVSA: Approaching Critical Condition….
Via El Universal, a very dire outlook on state-run oil holding Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa).  As the article states: “…Pdvsa has little cash flow.” Pdvsa is looking for money to [...]
Trans-Caspian Pipeline Politics
Via The Oil and Glory, an interesting look at the continued “pipeline politics” surrounding the Nabucco project and the entire trans-Caspian region.  As the article notes: [...]
Russia and Cuba: Plans To Cooperate On Offshore Oil Exploration
Via The Financial Times, a report that Russia and Cuba have signed contracts that ”set the bases” for Russian oil company Zarubezhneft to search for oil in Cuba’s part of the Gulf of Mexico.  [...]
Chinese Marketers Look Overseas
Via Advertising Age (subscription required), a detailed look at how internationally-minded Chinese companies are trying to build brands and retail operations overseas, such as Li Ning (who hopes its [...]
Failed States: Potential Investment Opportunities?
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, their annual Failed States Index which looks at the world’s most fragile countries suffering from virulent economic crisis, countless natural disasters, and government [...]
Impact Of Political Turmoil On Iran’s Natural Gas Sector
Via Energy Daily, a report on the impact that the continuing political turmoil sweeping Iran will have upon its pressing need to develop its natural gas sector, which is widely perceived as the [...]

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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.