NEW DELHI: Oil & gas stocks, such as Indraprastha Gas (up 2.25 per cent), GAIL (India) (up 1.45 per cent), Petronet LNG (up 1.43 per cent), Oil India (up 1.02 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.61 per cent) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (up 0.43 per cent) were trading up in Monday's trade.

The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.29 per cent up at 16,331 around 12 pm (IST).

However, Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 0.58 per cent), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (down 0.28 per cent), Reliance Industries (down 0.20 per cent) and Castrol India (down 0.10 per cent) were trading down in the BSE Oil & Gas index around that time.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was 7 points up at 34,064, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 2 points down at 10,528.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 23 were trading in the green, while 27 were in the red.

Sun Pharma, Bharti Airtel and Coal India were leading the Sensex index.

On the other hand, Tata Consultancy Services, Hindustan Unilever and ICICI Bank were the top drags on the Sensex index.