Oil prices might have halted their earlier slide below $80 a barrel this week but analysts believe the dog fight between major oil producers over reducing the supply of oil could lead to lower prices yet.

Oil markets have seen prices fall sharply over the last four months, as faltering global growth in major economies has cut demand at a time of over-supply. On Thursday, WTI crude fell below $80 a barrel for the first time since June 2012 before recovering to 82.88 on Friday.

The global oil benchmark Brent crude climbed by almost a dollar to near $86 a barrel on Friday morning -- up from a near four-year low at below $83 on Thursday -- after more positive economic data from the U.S. Prices have fallen over 20 percent since June, however, when turmoil in Iraq lifted prices to $116 a barrel.

"The bearishness in the global oil market is all being driven by the U.S. shale revolution," Seth Kleinman, head of Global Energy Strategy at Citi, told CNBC. "It's being driven by this massive infrastructure build out that we've seen over the last few years and it's taken the market a lot more time to catch up and act more rationally."