Oil tops $60 for first time in 2015, industry cutbacks support

Brent crude oil prices will average $58/bbl in 2015 and $75/bbl in 2016

Crude oil prices moved higher toward the end of January and into the first week of February.

“So, fundamentally, the crisis in oil prices in 2014 – is just a ripple on the water compared to the oversupply tsunami of 1985. The amount of excess capacity is five times less. Operating costs are 2-3 times higher. Instead of a deep drop in demand – a growth is recorded. The rate of decline in marginal production – is ten times higher. There is a clear unbalance between fundamental drivers and the observed price dynamics” - highlighted Rosneft Head.

Looking into 2015 we face a very challenging market.

BHI: US rig count continues 11-week dive, loses 98 more units

The United States will remain the world’s top source of oil supply growth up to 2020, even after the recent collapse in prices, the International Energy Agency said, defying expectations of a more dramatic slowdown in shale growth.

Halliburton says it will eliminate at least 5,000 jobs

Total reduces budget by 10% to $23-24 billion

EIA expects gasoline demand to increase by nearly 1% in 2015