NEW DELHI: Gains in shares of GAIL (India) (up 2.70 per cent), Reliance Industries (RIL) (up 1.15 per cent) and Castrol India (up 0.55 per cent) were keeping the oil gas index in the green in Friday's session.The BSE Oil Gas index was trading 0.41 per cent up at 14,916 around 01:25 pm.
Shares of BPCL (up 0.37 per cent), Petronet LNG (up 0.27 per cent) and HPCL (up 0.08 per cent) too were in the green around that time.
However, shares of ONGC (down 1.32 per cent), Oil India (down 0.63 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (down 0.23 per cent) and Indraprastha Gas (down 0.20 per cent) were incurring losses around that time.
Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 78 points at 38,321, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 34 points at 11,571.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 32 were trading in the green, while 18 were in the red.
In the Sensex kitty, 20 stocks were advancing and 11 were declining.Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto, Bharti Airtel and Tata Motors were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.YES Bank, Sun Pharma and PowerGrid were among the top losers in the Sensex kitty of stocks.