The French Connection: Increasing Threats to the Development of Iran LNG’s Industry
Energy Daily recently reported on the impact that potential new European and U.N. sanctions may have upon Iran’s efforts to develop its liquefied natural gas potential in the massive South Pars [...]
Iran – Pakistan – India Gas Pipeline … soon to become only the Iran – Pakistan Pipeline?
Via an interesting report from the Bangladesh Power Development Board, analysis that the proposed Iran – Pakistan – India Gas pipeline may be stuck, as they put it, in “quick [...]
DP World: A Port for Every Investment Storm?
While this has been somewhat on-again, off-again over past months, the New York Times recently reported that DP World, the Dubai government port owner with holdings from Britain to China, plans to [...]
Strategic Energy Transportation Corridor: Russia, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan
Interesting analysis by John C.K. Daly about some possible projects that would see Russia gain the upper hand in the race to exploit the Caspian’s vast energy reserves, lead to the end of cheap [...]
China: Into Africa (continued)
Via Energy Daily, news that China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), has agreed to invest in a joint venture oil refinery near the capital of Chad.  Just a further example of China push into [...]
The Race for Turkmenistan’s Reserves
While Kazakhstan gets most of the press, perhaps the most interesting country in Central Asia – from a strategic hydrocarbon reserve perspective – is Turkmenistan.  As this article [...]

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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.