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The EIA forecasts that Brent crude oil prices will average $61/bbl in 2015 and $67/bbl in 2016, $3 less than the agency forecast for 2016 prices in last monthâs STEO. WTI prices are expected to average $56/bbl in 2015 and $62/bbl in 2016, maintaining a $5 spread with the international crude benchmark for both years.est Texas Intermediate is expected to average $5 less than Brent for 2015-2016. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) for the month of May, showing prices for both Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) are stronger than in the past.
(GasBuddy) â Hard to believe, but the national average price of gas was more than $1 per gal. higher at the start of 2014 ($3.29) than it was on the last day of the year. On Jan. 1, 2014, WTI crude oil was trading at $98 per barrel and gas below $3 was found in just a handful of states.y Thanksgiving the national average was 44 cents lower than 2013 and by Christmas the national average was 90 cents lower. When OPEC met in Vienna on Thanksgiving Day they surprised many by announcing no cut in production and the price of WTI â$74 the day beforeâ would shed nearly $20 per barrel by. yearâs end.