Gazprom’s Interest in Bolivia
December 30th, 2007 The Financial Times recently reported that Gazprom is considering a $2bn gas investment in production capacity in Bolivia which has vast gas reserves, second only to Venezuela in Latin America. As [...]
Gas’ing Up: China Pays For a Central Asian Pipeline
December 30th, 2007 I noticed via The International Herald Tribune, that China’s biggest oil company – China National Petroleum Corp. – has agreed to spend US$2.2 billion to help build a natural gas [...]
Africa and the Middle East: FT’s Next Investing “Hot Spot”
December 30th, 2007 Today’s Financial Times points out the increased interest in North African and Middle Eastern stock markets, with several well-known funds aiming to invest up to US$1 billion in the region. [...]
Dubai: Iran’s Hong Kong
December 30th, 2007 An interesting article in Terra Daily recently, comparing Dubai’s current & cultural associations with Iran to that which Hong Kong historically played for China (before the mainland opened [...]
Kyrgyzstan’s Oil
December 29th, 2007 While Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan understandably garner most of the attention related to Central Asia’s hydrocarbon reserves, New Eurasia recently offered an intriguing look at [...]
Iran and Latin America: An Axis of Unity
December 29th, 2007 An interesting story in The San Antonio Express-News on Iran’s recent partnership with Nicaragua and Venezuela to help finance a $350 million deep-water port on Nicaragua’s wild Caribbean [...]

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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.