China & Nigeria: The Honeymoon is Over
Via Africa-Asia Confidential, an interesting look at growing discord in the relationship between China and Africa, specifically Nigeria.  As the article notes: “The catastrophic failure in [...]
Disappearing Oil Market and Its Impact on The New Seven Sisters
Via Robert Amsterdam, interesting analysis of the impact that falling oil prices may have upon financing for key production and transit projects, which could present a major strain on future supplies [...]
China To Build A New Oil & Gas Pipeline Across Myanmar
Via Energy Daily, a report that China will build a new oil & gas pipeline across Myanmar.  As the article notes: “…Work on the oil and gas line will begin in southwest China’s [...]
Investing in Africa and Ecuador
Via Portfolio, an article extolling the investment opportunities in Africa and Ecuador.  As the report notes: “…His big idea, as glossed this speech, is that poor resource-rich [...]
Fishing For Investment Returns In The Caspian
Via The Silk Road Intelligencer, an interesting look at The Sturgeon Fund, launched in December 2006, to target the “Turkestan” region, comprising Central Asia and the Caucasus.  As the [...]
Proposed Impact of Gazprom Price Increases on Europe
Via Stratfor (subscription required), an interesting report that certain European states have told Russian natural gas giant Gazprom that if the firm raises natural gas prices at the beginning of [...]

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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.