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LUKoil head Alekperov prevent a fall in world oil prices to $ 25, he told reporters at the Gaidar Forum. So he answered the questions of journalists, reports Tass.
He said that this will be a short-term reduction.
According to the forecast the head of Lukoil, significant fluctuations in oil prices will continue throughout 2015. As an example, he cited the change in the value of yesterday quotes: “For the last day, you notice, 10% of the variation. This has never happened. ”
In the course of yesterday’s trading on the stock exchange ICE futures price for Brent crude for delivery in March 2015 from $ 48.07 kolebelas to $ 52.42 per barrel. As a result of trading on January 15 closed at $ 48.27 per barrel., Which is 3.19% lower than the close of business on January 14.
Today, the ICE Brent expensive. At the peak of the cost of a barrel rose to $ 49.69, which is about 3% higher than yesterday’s close.
At the end of December 2014 Alekperov said that the average price of oil in 2015 will be $ 60 per barrel and it is of such prices been drawn up budget LUKOIL for 2015.
«Our company has made three options: $ 80, $ 70, $ 60 average we have approved $ 60 yet,” – said Alekperov.
The head of Lukoil explained that the drop in oil prices was largely triggered by statements from representatives of the OPEC countries that they can work and $ 20 per barrel. However, Alekperov hopes that at the February session of the OPEC decisions will be made that will help the oil price rise. “Today, many investment projects are suspended. So I hope that the price of oil stabilizes. At what level – it is difficult to predict. But we also believe that somewhere in the $ 70-80 level by the end of the year there can be “, – said the head of Lukoil.
On the eve of experts Bank of America Merrill Lynch issued a forecast that the decline in oil prices has not completed by the end of March 2015 the price of Brent crude to fall to $ 31 per barrel., and the cost of a barrel of oil of mark WTI – up to $ 32.
However, in the second quarter of 2015, after in the United States to reduce the volume of shale oil, the price of Brent and WTI will start to grow and by the end of June will be equal to around $ 43 per barrel. The average for the 2015 price of a barrel Brent, as calculated by Merrill Lynch, will be $ 52, and a barrel of WTI – $ 50.
On why oil prices may stay at $ 20-50 in the next 7 10 years, RBC said the politician and economist Grigory Yavlinsky. Read his column here.
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