** Shares of oil and gas companies rise tracking a jump in
oil prices
** Brent crude LCOc1 climbs 2.56% to $82.03/bbl and U.S.
West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 up 2.7% at $76.88/bbl O/R
** Prices surge on the possibility OPEC+ will extend or
deepen supply cuts, a storm-related drop in Kazakh oil output
and a weaker U.S. dollar
** Energy majors Exxon Mobil XOM.N and Chevron CVX.N
gain 0.86% and 1.41% respectively
** Hess Corp up 1.5%, top pct gainer on S&P 500 Energy
Sector .SPNY
** Shares of Permian Resources PR.N , Callon Petroleum
CPE.N , Vital Energy VTLE.N , and Northern Oil and Gas NOG.N
rise between 1.3% and 1.8%
(Reporting by Vallari Srivastava)
((Srivastava.Vallari@thomsonreuters.com;))