** Oil and gas companies slip premarket tracking over 1%
decline in crude prices
** Brent crude oil LCOc1 down 1.7% at $89.34/bbl while
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) CLc1 falls 1.9% to
$87.57/bbl as prices remain under pressure from demand fears
driven by macroeconomic headwinds O/R
** Pledges by Saudi Arabia and Russia to continue crude
output cuts to the end of 2023 were offset by demand fears
stemming from macroeconomic headwinds
** Oil and gas producers Occidental Petroleum OXY.N ,
Callon Petroleum CPE.N , Marathon Oil MRO.N and Devon Energy
DVN.N slip 1%
** Oilfield services firm Halliburton HAL.N down 1%
** Refiners Valero VLO.N and Marathon Petroleum MPC.N
decline 1.2% and 1.3%, respectively
(Reporting by Arunima Kumar in Bengaluru)
((Arunima.Kumar@thomsonreuters.com; Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aru_Kumar94
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