Private Equity into Iraq: A New Definition of Risk Management?
May 7th, 2008 Via Reuters, a recent report that influential emerging markets fund manager Mark Mobius said on Friday that he was in talks for private equity investments in Iraq.  As noted in the article: [...]
Iran as a Counter Balance to Gazprom’s Energy Power
May 7th, 2008 Robert Amsterdam (one of our favorite blogger analysts) recently offered interesting insight into the geopolitical importance of Iran in terms of EU energy security vis-à-vis Gazprom’s [...]
Frontier Investing
May 7th, 2008 While we’ve been following this topic for some time, popular financial columnist Jane Bryant Quinn recently noted that investing in emerging markets isn’t optional anymore. Globalization [...]
Gazprom, Libya, and Possibility of a Gas OPEC
May 7th, 2008 Via Robert Amsterdam, a very insightful look into recent activities by Gazprom, Libya, and possibility of a Gas OPEC.  While some analysts have been skeptical about a possible gas cartel given the [...]
Chavez “Oils” Venezuela’s Ties with China, But At A Cost
May 7th, 2008 Via Stratfor (subscription required), very interesting analysis of PetroChina’s deal with Venezuelan oil company Petroleos de Venezuela to build a 400,000 barrels per day refinery in [...]
The New Silk (Rail)Road
April 4th, 2008 An interesting article in Windows on Eurasia, analyzing how two enormous railroad projects – one going north-south between Iran, Russia and Azerbaijan, and a second backed by the West going [...]

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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.