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Analysts See Oil Trading Closer To $70 Through Year-End

Oil analysts and economists believe that $70 a barrel is a more realistic outlook for Brent Crude prices for the rest of the year than $80 oil, as COVID variants and the geopolitics of oil will continue to be a source of volatility on the market, the monthly Reuters poll showed on Friday.

Brent Crude prices are expected to average $68.76 a barrel this year, 38 analysts and economists who took part in the Reuters poll said. The forecast from end-July is higher than the June estimate in the same poll, where analysts had predicted Brent Crude prices averaging $67.48 per barrel in 2021.

So far this year, Brent prices have averaged $66.57 a barrel. Early on Friday, the international benchmark traded at $76.21 at 9:30 a.m. EDT, up by 0.21 percent on the day.

Analysts do not rule out Brent prices overshooting to $80 and higher in the coming months, according to the Reuters poll. But they generally do not believe this price would be sustainable as it would slow the demand recovery from price-sensitive oil importers. It would also provoke a reaction from the OPEC+ producer group, which doesn’t want oil prices so high that it would discourage buyers.

Carsten Menke, an analyst with Julius Baer, told Reuters:

“The wax and wane of COVID-19 waves will have more of an influence on sentiment rather than supply and demand fundamentals during the rest of the year, as we do not expect politicians to impose hard and broad-based lockdown measures anymore.”

The analysts polled by Reuters believe that the global economic recovery and the return of Iranian barrels now most likely postponed to 2022, if at all, will support oil prices. However, resurging COVID variants are set to cap gains, even though governments are not expected to impose lockdowns on the scale they did in the spring of 2020.  

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

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  • Mamdouh Salameh on July 30 2021 said:
    I disagree. Brent crude is projected to test $80 a barrel during the third quarter of 2021 underpinned by a global economy growing at 6.3% this year or more than double its rate of growth in 2019 when prices ranged from $70-$75.

    And while the COVID variants could slow down the growth of both the global economy and global oil demand, the momentum of the global economy will ultimately prevail. That is why Brent crude could average $71-$72 a barrel in 2021.

    Dr Mamdouh G Salameh
    International Oil Economist
    Visiting Professor of Energy Economics at ESCP Europe Business School, London
  • Thom Grendsamod on July 31 2021 said:
    A year ago, these geniuses told us oil was finished and would never return. Now look at us today. The industry is booming and these brain boxes keep trying to tell us otherwise. Whatever they tell us, you can guarantee the very opposite will happen. In reality oil is heading back to over $100, and the industry has a great future as the primary energy source to our world.

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