Annual Energy Outlook 2003 with Projections to 2025

Table 15. Forecasts of world oil prices, 2000-2025

 

2001 dollars per barrel

Forecast

2000

2005

2010

2015

2020

2025

AEO2003

           

  Reference

28.35

23.27

23.99

24.72

25.48

26.57

  High price

28.35

28.65

32.51

32.95

33.02

33.05

  Low price

28.35

22.04

19.04

19.04

19.04

19.04

Altos

NA

22.64

23.40

25.58

27.90

31.61

GII

28.12

21.28

22.09

23.54

25.08

NA

IEA

28.63

21.47

21.47

21.47

25.56

27.61

PEL

28.63

21.21

18.46

17.47

NA

NA

PIRA

31.00

22.43

23.33

26.32

NA

NA

NRCan

22.28

22.28

22.28

22.28

22.28

NA

DBAB

28.01

19.04

19.04

18.94

19.34

19.18

EEA

28.87

20.98

20.47

19.98

19.50

NA

Tables A1 and C1. AEO2002: AEO2002 National Energy Modeling System, run AEO2003.D102001B. GII (formerly DRI-WEFA): Global Insight, Oil Market Outlook: Long-Term Focus (Spring-Summer 2002). Note: Prices shown here differ from those shown in Table 22. The source is a later edition of the Long-Term Focus that was developed in a nonintegrated run. Altos: Altos Partners, World Oil Model, e-mail from Tom Choi (October 9, 2002). Note: Price is WTI at Cushing. IEA: International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2002 (September 2002). Note: Price is crude oil import price. PEL: Petroleum Economics, Ltd., World Long Term Oil and Energy Outlook (June 2002). Note: Brent price. PIRA: PIRA Energy Group, Retainer Client Seminar (October 2002). Note: Price is WTI at Cushing. NRCan: Natural Resources Canada, Canada’s Energy Outlook 1996-2020 (April 1997 and reaffirmed in August 2002). DBAB: Deutsche Banc Alex.Brown, World Oil Supply and Demand Estimates (September 2002). EEA: Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc., EEA Compass Service (October 2002). Note: Price is U.S. refiner’s acquisition cost of crude oil.
NA = not available.

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