NEW DELHI: Oil & gas stocks Reliance Industries (up 1.82 per cent), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (up 1.07 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.71 per cent), Castrol India (up 0.56 per cent) and Petronet LNG (up 0.52 per cent) were trading up in afternoon trade on Thursday.

The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.38 per cent up at 15,632 around 2 pm (IST).

However, shares of Indraprastha Gas (down 3.90 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 1.30 per cent), Oil India (down 0.66 per cent), GAIL (India) (down 0.19 per cent) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (down 0.08 per cent) were trading in the red around that time.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was 257 points up at 33,017, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 69 points up at 10,187.

Among the 51 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 36 were trading in the green, while 14 were in the red.

Infosys, State Bank of India, Reliance Industries, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Motors and NTPC were among the top gainers in the Sensex index.

Adani Ports, Coal India, Bajaj Auto, Cipla, Hero MotoCorp and Sun Pharma were among the losers.