This and the partial recovery of oil prices into the mid - $ 60 per barrel range gave expensive oil another day to survive and fight. (oilprice.com)
When the year began, many investors anticipated strong earnings growth mostly coming from the energy sector, and many oil analysts had targeted crude prices in the upper US$ 50s to low US$ 60 / barrel range over the course of 2017. (blackrockblog.com)
Prices finally soared to the US$ 140 - barrel range in mid-2008 before plunging just as dramatically in the recessionary aftermath of the 2008 credit crisis. (canadianbusiness.com)