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BUZZ-Energy companies drag on the Stoxx as oil heads to new lows

** Shares (Berlin: DI6.BE - news) in oil and oilfied services companies at the bottom of the Stoxx 600 as oil heads towards $27

** Stoxx 600 Oil and Gas Index down 3.3 pct, oilfield services cos battered

** Seadrill (Hamburg: 2171269.HM - news) bottom of the Stoxx, down 12 pct; Technip (Paris: FR0000131708 - news) , Amec Foster, Subsea, Saipem (Other OTC: SAPMF - news) , Petrofac (Amsterdam: PF6.AS - news) down 4.2-5 pct

** Energy producers also falling: Tullow, Shell (LSE: RDSB.L - news) , Statoil (Xetra: 675213 - news) down 3.8-4.4 pct (venkateshasoumithri.mamidipudi.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)