Price barrels of oil in 2009 would be $ 51, predicts the Ministry of USA average barrel price of oil next year will be 51 dollars. With such a forecast issued today, Information Department, Ministry of Energy.Its experts noted that the effects of the current financial crisis in the world, originated in the USA, were more severe than previously predicted. In this regard, U.S. government experts conclude that the more significant will reduction in global energy demand, an additional drop in crude oil production and prices to it. It is estimated Information Administration, in light of global economic turmoil average cost of barrels black gold in the past year amount to $ 100, and the new – 51. In doing so, global consumption is expected to decline this year by 50 thousand barrels a day, and next – to 450 thousand barrels a day , believed in the Ministry of dollars. In his testimony, such a development would mean a reduction in world consumption (petroleum), the second year in a row for the first time in three decades . At the sight of Information Management Ministry, production of black gold in countries that are not members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in 2009 grow by 410 thousand barrreley a day , despite the drop in production in Mexico, the North Sea and Russia . The key sources such growth Washington calls Azerbaijan, Brazil and the United States . OPEC oil production next year will be fixed at around 30.6 million bpd, said the Ministry of dollars. According to him, the rate of about 1.6 million barrels per day less than in 2008, ITAR-TASS news agency.
