Indonesia’s Energy Sector: Great Potential With Reform
Via Stratfor (subscription required), a detailed analysis of Indonesia’s transition from being a major oil exporter to leaving the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to seeing its [...]
Myanmar: Open For Business (For Some)
Via Terra Daily, a report that foreign investment soared in Myanmar in 2008, despite ongoing international sanctions.  As the article notes: “…foreign investment n Myanmar increased more [...]
Iraq: Gas Station To The World?
Via Tom’s Dispatch.com, Michael Klare’s interesting look at whether Iraq will simply become a new petro-state servicing the global economy: “…Iraq is, of course, one of the [...]
Pemex: Coming Up Dry?
Via RigZone, more pessimistic news on Pemex.  As the report notes: “…Mexican oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos is struggling to meet an ambitious $20 billion investment plan for this year [...]
Nabucco: Demand Without Supply (Yet)
Via Stratfor (subscription required), fresh analysis of Nabucco in light of the recent transit agreement signed by Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria.  As the article notes, the pipeline [...]
Nabucco: A Pipe Dream Closer To Reality?
Via The New York Times, an update on Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Turkey’s decision to sign a transit agreement on the Nabucco pipeline, which would stretch 2,000 miles from the [...]

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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.