NEW DELHI: The BSE Oil Gas index was trading 0.58 per cent down at 14,877 around 01:45 pm on Tuesday.Castrol India (down 2.30 per cent), HPCL (down 2.02 per cent) and Indraprastha Gas (IGL) (down 2.01 per cent) were the top losers in the index.Shares of BPCL (down 1.69 per cent), Petronet LNG (down 1.63 per cent), GAIL (India) (down 1.32 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (down 1.19 per cent), Oil India (down 0.59 per cent) and ONGC (down 0.11 per cent) also suffered losses.However, shares of Reliance Industries (up 1.15 per cent) were trading with decent gains around that time.
Benchmark BSE Sensex was 30 points down at 38,282, while the NSE Nifty50 index was down 28 points at 11,555.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 13 were trading in the green, while 37 were in the red.In the Sensex index, 9 stocks were advancing and 22 were declining.
Infosys, TCS and Wipro were trading with gains in the Sensex index.Hindustan Unilever, Asian Paints and Coal India were among the top losers in the Sensex index.