Myanmar To Pipe Natural Gas to China
December 30th, 2008 Via Energy Daily, a report that Myanmar has signed a deal with South Korean and Indian companies to pipe natural gas from the energy-rich nation’s offshore fields to China.  According to the [...]
Caspian Energy in 2008: “The Best of Times, The Worst of Times”
December 30th, 2008 Via Energy Daily, a summary of 2008 for the five petro-states ringing the Caspian.  As the article notes “…Three of these are the former Soviet republics of Russia, Azerbaijan and [...]
Gazprom’s Financial Woes
December 29th, 2008 Via The International Herald Tribune (and New York Times), an insightful report on Gazprom’s recent financial woes.  As  the article notes: “…A year ago, Gazprom, the Russian [...]
Russia’s Energy Deals with Serbia
December 26th, 2008 Via Stratfor (subscription required), interesting analysis on the recent “political agreement” signed on Dec. 24 by Serbian President Boris Tadic and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to [...]
China’s Look East To Africa Goes South…
December 26th, 2008 Via Africa-Asia Confidential, an interesting report on how the economic meltdown and spread of cholera across Zimbabwe and into South Africa has emboldened China, India, and Japan – which have been [...]
Tajikistan Attempts To Grow Its Gas Industry
December 26th, 2008 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, [...]

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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.