Apache Economists and analysts have kept their average Brent price outlook for 2016 almost unchanged at US$44.78 per barrel, as growing hurdles to a global deal on production limits put downside pressure on crude oil prices, according to a Reuters poll out on Monday. A total of 35 economists and analysts surveyed by Reuters reckon that the Brent prices would average US$57.08 next year. U.S. light crude CLc1 is expected to average US$43.46 this year and US$55.22 next year. So far this year, Brent has averaged US$43.93 and WTI has averaged US$42.31. At the time of writing, WTI Crude traded down 0.53 percent at US$48.44, while the Brent Crude was down 0.49 percent at US$50.43. In the previous Reuters poll – when OPEC producers had just agreed to work toward a deal to cut their total crude production at between 32.5 million bpd and 33 million bpd […]