KUALA LUMPUR, June 5 |
Tue Jun 5, 2012 12:17am EDT
(Reuters) - Oil prices will weaken more in the second half of 2012 as demand reacts to the slowing global economy and international political tensions ease, Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Peter Voser said on Tuesday.
Brent crude dropped below $100 a barrel recently to a 16-month low as weak economic data from the United States and China added to ongoing worries about the euro zone crisis.
"Global demand is softening, we have got recessionary elements in Europe, a small slowdown in Asia Pacific," Voser told Reuters in an interview.
"At the same time some of the geopolitical elements of price volatility over the past few months have kind of receded, and therefore
we see a softening of prices which I expect to go well into the second half of this year."