NEW DELHI: Losses in shares of Reliance Industries (RIL) (down 2.78 per cent), GAIL (India) (down 1.10 per cent), BPCL (down 0.99 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (down 0.96 per cent) and HPCL (down 0.22 per cent) were keeping the oil gas index down in Friday's session.
The BSE Oil Gas index was trading 0.50 per cent down at 15,045 around 02:35 pm.
However, shares of Petronet LNG (up 2.90 per cent), ONGC (up 0.87 per cent), Castrol India (up 0.76 per cent), Oil India (up 0.61 per cent) and Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.32 per cent) were in the green around that time.
Market sentiment was subdued ahead of June quarter GDP numbers.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was down 14 points at 11,663, while the BSE Sensex was 81 points down at 38,609.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 28 were trading in the green, while 22 were in the red.
In the Sensex kitty, 18 stocks were advancing and 13 were declining.Tata Motors, Sun Pharma and PowerGrid were leading among Sensex scrips.
YES Bank, Reliance Industries, Mahindra Mahindra and Maruti Suzuki were among the top losers in the Sensex index.