NEW DELHI: Oil gas shares were trading in the green with the SP BSE Oil Gas index trading 1.81 per cent up at 13,572.23 around 02:10 pm.
Shares of Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (up 3.19 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (up 2.88 per cent), Petronet LNG (up 2.70 per cent) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 1.82 per cent), were the top gainers in the index.Reliance Industries (up 1.65 per cent), GAIL (India) (up 1.51 per cent), Oil India (up 1.49 per cent) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (up 0.52 per cent), too were among top performers.Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 73.35 points at 10,585.85 while BSE Sensex was up 281.43 points at 35,146.53 at that time.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.
Shares of South Indian Bnk, JP Associates, Reliance Comm, Federal Bank, Adani Power, Suzlon Energy, NCC, Dewan Housing, Vakrangee and ICICI Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.