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Seeking Alpha projects oil to reach $125 a barrel in 2008

February 19, 2008

Seeking Alpha projects that oil will reach $125 per barrel in 2008.

Commentator Byron Wien said “China and India are consuming less than two barrels of oil per person per year while we consume 26 barrels, Western Europe consumers 13 to 15 barrels, Japan, Korea the same amount. As China and India increase their consumption, even if the two and a half billion people there only increase their consumption a quarter of a barrel of oil per year, there’s no way the world can meet that demand. So I think the price of oil is going a lot higher.”

Other notable predictions by Seeking Alpha were a recommendation to focus on sugar as opposed to ethanol stocks, a prediction that coal prices would double in 2008, and that rising oil prices will spur investment in micro-car development in China and India.

By contrast, the Money and Markets newsletter predicts $150 oil by the end of 2008, in comparison to a price prediction of $105 per barrel from Goldman Sachs and $85 from the Energy Information Administration.

The International Energy Agency released a report projecting a severe energy supply shortage by no later than 2015. The report warned that increasing energy demand in India and China would result in an oil shortage of up to 7 million barrels of oil per day.

Global annual consumption of 85 billion barrels, is expected to reach 118 billion barrels by 2030. Matthew Simmons, a Houston oil and gas investment banker, told the Associated Press that the price of crude oil is likely to reach $300 a barrel. Oil prices reached a record $98.62 per barrel last month.

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    Written by Jim Lane · Filed Under Research 

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