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These experts know exactly where oil prices are headed

Bloomberg
THE outlook on oil prices is clear: Oil will crash. Unless prices surge. Definitely one or the other.
Crude just had the biggest two-week gain in 17 years, but it's still about 50 percent cheaper than it was in June. The situation is volatile, and forecasts are all over the place — from $30 a barrel predicted by the president of Goldman Sachs to as high as $200 a barrel seen by the head of Opec.
So what's going to happen next? Here's a sampling of predictions from the last two weeks:
• Oil could fall as low as $30 because supply surpluses won't disappear overnight, said Barclays analyst Miswin Mahesh.
* Oil has the potential climb to $200 per barrel from a lack of investment in new supply, warned Opec's Secretary General Abdell El-Badri. 'If you don't invest in oil and gas, you will see more than $200," he said, without giving a time frame.
* Shale oil will soon be needed to make up for production declines around the world, pushing U.S. prices to as high as $65 a barrel, the head of Astenbeck Capital Management wrote in a Feb. 2 letter obtained by Bloomberg News.
• In a Bloomberg News survey of analysts and traders, 12 of 32 respondents predicted futures will decline through Feb. 13, while 10 forecast an increase.
• “We don't think we've seen the bottom yet," said Giovanni Staunovo, a commodities analyst at
UBS in Zurich.
• 'We are establishing a bottom,' said Bill O'Grady, chief market strategist at Confluence Investment Management in St. Louis, which oversees $2.4 billion. 'In the long run, probably $60 is going to be
• Oil could fall to the $30 a barrel range, said Fumiya Kokubu, CEO of Tokyo-based Marubeni Corp. He said he doesn't see much of a price rebound in the next two or three years.
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• Oil will probably continue to decline and could reach as low as $30 a barrel, said Gaiy Cohn, president of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. "We're probably in the lower, longer view,' said Cohn, a former oil trader.
• "The fundamental supply and demand does remind me of 1986 a bit, where we could go into a period in this decade of lower oil prices,’ said BP CEO Bob Dudley. Prices may stay below $60 for as long as three years, he said. "It will be a long time before we see $100 again.'
2015, the average price is likely to be anywhere from $35 to $80, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence survey of 86 investment specialists. That’s a pretty big range.
To be fair, some of the forecasts above aren't mutually exclusive. Some analysts think prices could drop further and then skyrocket once production dries up or there's a rebound in global demand, especially China. But the timing of a lasting turnaround in oil prices is murky at best
The only thing that's certain is more uncertainty. Probably.