** S&P 500 energy sector gains 0.4% tracking higher oil prices
** Brent crude futures up 2.6% at $72.86 per barrel after Norway's Equinor says it had halted output from its Johan Sverdrup oilfield, western Europe's largest, due to an onshore power outage
** Occidental Petroleum , Williams Co , Halliburton and Diamondback Energy gain between 1.5% and 2.6%
** Oil prices also aided by escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war
(Reporting by Sourasis Bose in Bengaluru)
((Sourasis.bose@thomsonreuters.com))
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