Gazprom Neft Seeks to Expand Overseas
July 12th, 2008 As reported by The Silk Road Intelligencer, Gazprom Neft – a subsidiary of Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom – had initiated talks to acquire a 49 percent stake in Mangistaumunaigas [...]
India Peru’sing for Oil Abroad
July 12th, 2008 From Energy Daily, a report that India’s Reliance Industries Ltd. — a leading South Asian energy firm — has signed a joint agreement with Peru’s state oil company to explore [...]
Total Exit from Iran
July 12th, 2008 Via The New York Times, news that Total, the French oil giant, has decided to back away from planned investments in Iran because of political uncertainty.  As the article notes: [...]
Libya and Egypt: More Investment/More Positioning
July 12th, 2008 Courtesy of Stratfor (subscription required), news that Libya recently announced a deal involving the development of an oil refinery and gasoline stations in Egypt, as well as a natural gas pipeline [...]
Caspian Pipeline Politics: Gazprom’s Monopolistic Actions Backfiring
July 7th, 2008  As we have discussed many times previously, the existing pipeline architecture of Central Asia represents the regional imperialism of Cold War Russia, despite Turkmen and Kazakh flirtations with [...]
India & Iran: Gas Pipeline Project
July 4th, 2008 From AFP, a report that India expects to finalize a deal “by next month” on a pipeline that will transport gas from Iran.  According to the article, Indian Oil Minister Murli Deora [...]

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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.