Nearly half of U.S. oil and gas company executives expect Brent crude oil prices to remain below $60 a barrel this year, and a third believe price volatility will extend into 2016, according to a KPMG survey released Wednesday. The survey, which canvassed nearly 200 senior U.S. energy executives, comes amid an oil industry slowdown caused by oversupply and spiraling prices, and as the oil market mulls whether prices and activity will rebound in the coming months. The survey showed that 45 percent of respondents expect an average Brent price of between $50 and $59 a barrel this year. Brent has averaged $57.59 a barrel so far this year and traded at around $67 on Wednesday, according to Reuters data. The outlook represented a major change from last year, when 94 percent of executives expected the oil price would be $100 or higher. Brent crude averaged around […]