LONDON, June 22 (Reuters) - Benchmark oil prices could hit
$100 a barrel and price volatility could also grow due to lower
investments and the energy transition, the heads of top energy
companies said on Tuesday.
"There is quite a chance to reach $100 but we could see
again in the coming years some lows as we have been accustomed
to volatility," TotalEnergies Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne
said at the Qatar Economic Forum.
Crude prices climbed on Tuesday to a more than
two-year high above $75 a barrel.
"We're probably going to see both $50 and $100 oil, don't
ask me about sequence though," Royal Dutch Shell CEO
Ben van Beurden told the event.
Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Wood said: "Coming out of the
pandemic and the lack of investment in our industry, I think
it's going to exacerbate the supply and demand tightness as the
economy's pick back up again."
Wood added: "And then with time we'll see supply pickup and
rebalance so we'll see both of those but in the shorter term
probably higher prices."
(Reporting by Ron Bousso, Julia Payne and Rania El Gamal;
Editing by Edmund Blair)
