** U.S.-listed shares of energy companies fall premarket, tracking a more than $4/barrel drop in oil prices
** Brent crude futures down 5.8% at $71.65/barrel; U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures down 6% at $67.47/barrel
** Oil prices tumbled after Israel's retaliatory strike on Iran over the weekend bypassed Tehran's oil and nuclear facilities and failed to disrupt energy supplies
** Top oil and gas cos Exxon and Chevron fall 2.3% and 1.8% respectively
** Shares of E&P cos Occidental Petroleum fall 2.3%, ConocoPhillips down 2.2% and Marathon Oil dips 2.5%
** Shares of oilfield services firms Baker Hughes and SLB fall 1.4% and 2.3% respectively
** Refiners Marathon Petroleum and Phillips 66
fall 1.5% and 1.3% respectively
(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)
((Pooja.Menon@thomsonreuters.com;))
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