NEW DELHI: The BSE Oil - Gas index was trading in the red in Thursday's morning session.
Shares of Gujarat State Petronet (down 2.98 per cent) , HPCL (down 1.81 per cent) , Castrol India (down 1.77 per cent) , Reliance Industries (down 1.28 per cent) , Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 1.23 per cent) , Indraprastha Gas (down 1.07 per cent) , GAIL (India) (down 0.99 per cent) , Oil - Natural Gas Corporation (down 0.6 per cent) and Indian Oil Corporation (down 0.04 per cent) were the top losers in the index.
The S-P BSE Oil - Gas index was trading 0.94 per cent down at 14432.24 around 10:43 am.
Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 71.75 points at 12,057.75 , while the BSE Sensex was down 232.76 points at 40,965.90.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 7 were trading in the green, while 43 were in the red.
Shares of Vodafone Idea, Narayana Hrudayalaya, YES Bank, Bharti Airtel, NTPC, Tata Motors, United Spirits, SAIL and Wockhardt were among the most traded shares on the NSE.