** Shares of oil and gas companies rise, tracking more than
1% gain in oil prices
** Brent crude LCOc1 up 1.4% at $74.18/bbl and US West
Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 up 1.2% at $69.36/bbl after a
five-month low in the prior session on a much
bigger-than-expected weekly withdrawal from U.S. crude storage
** Oil majors Exxon Mobil XOM.N and Chevron CVX.N rise
0.2% and 0.1% respectively
** Oil and gas producers Vital Energy VTLE.N , CNX
Resources CNX.N , Permian Resources PR.N , Callon Petroleum
CPE.N and Occidental OXY.N up between 0.9% and 1.8%
** Oilfield services companies Baker Hughes BKR.O , Liberty
Energy LBRT.N and ProPetro PUMP.N rise between 0.13% and
1.03%
** Refiners Marathon Petroleum MPC.N , Valero Energy
VLO.N and HF Sinclair Corp DINO.N up between 1.5% and 1.9%
** EQT Corp EQT.N gains 1.3% after Reuters reported it is
planning to sell $3 bln portfolio
(Reporting by Vallari Srivastava)