(Updates)
** Shares of U.S. oil and gas firms slip, tracking a fall in
oil prices
** Brent crude LCOc1 falls 2.5% and U.S. West Texas
Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 drops 2.7% after Russian Deputy
Prime Minister Alexander Novak played down the prospect of
further OPEC+ production cuts at its meeting next week O/R
** Oil majors Chevron Corp CVX.N and ExxonMobil Corp
XOM.N slip 2.2% and 2.4%, respectively
** Oil producers Chesapeake Energy Corp CHK.O , Occidental
Petroleum Corp OXY.N , ConocoPhillips COP.N , Marathon Oil
Corp MRO.N , Devon Energy Corp DVN.N , APA Corp APA.O and
Callon Petroleum Co CPE.N fall between 0.9% and 2.7%
** Oilfield services firms Halliburton Co HAL.N , Baker
Hughes Co BKR.O , SLB SLB.N and Patterson-UTI Energy Inc
PTEN.O ease 2% to 3.3%
** Refiners HF Sinclair Corp DINO.N , Valero Energy Corp
VLO.N and PBF Energy Inc PBF.N slide 1.6% to 3%
** United States Oil Fund LP USO.P dips 2% and ProShares
Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil UCO.P drops 3.8%
(Reporting by Ankit Kumar)
((Ankit.Kumar2@thomsonreuters.com))