** European oil stocks are modestly up on Thursday, tracking
a rise in global oil prices
** European oil and gas index .SXEP rises 1% to its
highest since mid-December
** Finnish oil refiner and biofuel maker Neste NESTE.HE
rises 4.5% and energy equipment and services firm Subsea 7
SUBC.OL is up 3.6%
** Norway's Equinor EQNR.OL rises 3.7%, Aker BP AKRBP.OL
3.1%, Var Energi VAR.OL 4% and Poland's Orlen 3.8%
** BP BP.L , Shell SHEL.L and Eni ENI.MI are up between
0.8% and 1.5%
(Reporting by Vera Dvorakova)
((vera.dvorakova@thomsonreuters.com))