RE:What the (STEO) Pros Forecast Related: Oil Jumps On Significant Crude Inventory Draw Speaking of safe, there’s safety in numbers. Just two weeks after the EIA published its 2020 oil price predictions back in January, Reuters conducted a poll of 50 economists and analysts. But just because there were more of them doesn’t mean they were any more right. In fact, this forecast, which pegged the average price of Brent in 2020 at $63.48, serves to highlight just how wrong everyone was. An April poll mid-lockdown by Reuters sang a much different tune, expecting Brent to average just $35.84 per barrel.