Tajikistan Attempts To Grow Its Gas Industry
Via Energy Daily, an interesting look at Tajikistan’s efforts to grow its gas industry.  As the article notes, while the former Soviet republics ringing the Caspian — Azerbaijan, [...]
Go, Go, GOPEC…
Via The Financial Times, a report on the recent meeting of gas exporting countries during which ministers meeting in Moscow transformed what had been an occasional talking shop into a formal body [...]
China Energy Companies: Go East (and North, South, and West) Young Man!
Via Stratfor (subscription required), a report that China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) and other Chinese energy companies are actively hunting for new investments in foreign oil and natural gas [...]
LUKoil’s Iberian Ambitions
Via Stratfor (subscription required), an update on Lukoil’s dalliance’s with Repsol YPF. As we have discussed previously, LUKoil, Russia’s largest privately-owned oil firm, is [...]
Calling Pyongyang … Orascom Eyes Cell Phone Venture in North Korea
Via The Financial Times, news that Orascom is looking at setting up a mobile phone venture in North Korea.  As the article notes “…Setting up a mobile phone service in North Korea – an [...]
A Future Middle East of Failed States?
Via The Asia Times, a highly pessimistic look at the economies of the largest Muslim countries, namely Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey.  While I do not wholly agree with the thesis of the piece, I felt [...]

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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.