Saudis Plan $100 Billion AI Powerhouse to Rival UAE Tech Hub
November 11th, 2024 Via Bloomberg, a report on Saudi Arabia’s plans to build an AI powerhouse: Entity would build on kingdom’s efforts to emerge as AI hub PIF, Google AI partnership may serve as model for [...]
Why Has High Speed Rail Failed in Kazakhstan?
November 9th, 2024 Kazakhstan once harbored grand plans for a high-speed rail network. The Diplomat examines why – while its neighbors have pushed ahead with such projects – HSR fallen out of favor in [...]
Peru New Megaport: Beijing’s ‘Playbook’ For Large Overseas Infrastructure Projects
November 9th, 2024 Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Peru’s new Chinese-built megaport: Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to inaugurate the $1.3bn Chancay port on the Pacific coast when he [...]
Tullow CEO Sees Stunted Kenya Oil Project as Fix for South Sudan
November 8th, 2024 Via Bloomberg, an article on a possible option to help transport South Sudan oil: Oil company made Kenya discoveries more than a decade ago South Sudan’s exports have been held up by a broken [...]
Myanmar Rebels Seize Rare-Earth Mining Hubs, Threatening Supply Chains
November 8th, 2024 Via Nikkei Asia, a report on how rebel activity in Myanmar, the world’s 3rd-largest rare earths producer, is disrupting exports to neighboring China: Armed rebels are taking control of key [...]
Mongolia’s New Coal Highway To China
November 8th, 2024 Via Dialogue. Earth, a report on Mongolia’s efforts to increase coal exports to a decarbonising China, leaving pastoralists in Ömnögovi province braced for the potential damage: [...]

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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.