China’s Confidence in Long Term Value of Oil: Chinese Takeover of Russian Oil
From Robert Amsterdam’s insightful blog, an interesting analysis of recent high level agreements between China and Russia in the energy field.  As the article notes “…First [...]
The Thirsty Dragon: China Ponders A Pipeline Loan to Russia
Stratfor (subscription required) provided an excellent analysis of the recent discussions between China and Russia over a potential $20 -$25 billion loan to Russian state-owned companies Transneft [...]
GOPEC, Go Figure…
Via The Financial Times, another look at the possibility of a Gas OPEC (GOPEC) and, more specifically, the unlikelihood of its success until LNG infrastructure becomes more pervasive around the [...]
No Russian Oil Pipeline To China in 2009
Via Energy Daily, a report that a partially built Russian oil pipeline to Asia will not be connected to China in 2009.  As noted in the article, a spur planned to be built from the Eastern [...]
Africa’s Proposed Single Free Trade Zone
Via Stratfor (subscription required), a close look at the recent announcement that leaders from three regional African trading blocs agreed to harmonize their organizations and form a single free [...]
Azerbaijan: Dancing Between the West and Russia
Via The New York Times, an interesting look at Azerbaijan, the small, oil-rich country on the Caspian Sea, which has balanced the interests of Russia (to its north) and the United States since it won [...]

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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.