Turkey: Forging An Energy Partnership with Azerbaijan & Armenia?
Via Stratfor, an interesting look at the possibility that Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan will enter into an energy relationship to counter the effects of Russia’s gains in the region after its [...]
Spigot Strategy: Will Tengiz Oil Flow East Instead?
Via BusinessWeek, an interesting analysis of Kazakhstan’s position in the overall race for Central Asia hydrocarbons, particularly the likelihood that future production from the massive Tengiz [...]
Russia’s African Gas Pipeline
A most interesting analysis from the blog “On Political Risk, detailing Russia’s recent steps to move closer to its goal of dominating the North African gas market, a potential [...]
China: A Third West-East Pipeline in the Plans?
As reported by Energy Daily,  China may build a third west-east gas pipeline in a bid to meet strong demand along its economically vibrant eastern seaboard.  As the reports states: The pipeline [...]
O Petróleo é Nosso: But Is It Petrobras’ or Brazil’s Petoro’s?
Via The Financial Times, an article noting that Brazil’s recent offshore oil find is set to pit one of the world’s most important emerging economies against both foreign equity investors and [...]
Russia Wins Latest Stage of Pipeline Wars: Geo-Economic & Geo-Political shifts In The Caucasus
As reported by Windows on Eurasia, with Iran’s declaration that it opposes the construction of any undersea pipelines in the Caspian on “ecological grounds” and thus will block any delimitation [...]

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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.