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SUGAR LAND, TEXAS--August 13, 2019--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Slowing economic growth in the U.S. and around the world will keep West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil "in the $50s" for the next year, Jay Bryson, managing director and acting chief economist for Well Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) (San Francisco, California), told about 2,000 oil company officials, bankers, analysts and investors Monday at The Oil & Gas Conference in Denver, Colorado. "I seriously doubt we're going to go to $80 a barrel in the next year," he added.