NEW DELHI: Oil & gas stocks Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (up 1.16 per cent), Oil India (up 0.78 per cent), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (up 0.47 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.32 per cent), Reliance Industries (up 0.20 per cent) and GAIL (India) (up 0.19 per cent) were trading up in afternoon trade on Thursday, keeping the BSE Oil & Gas index up.

The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.24 per cent up at 16,133 around 12:30 pm (IST).

However, Indraprastha Gas (down 1.40 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (down 0.60 per cent) and Petronet LNG (down 0.41 per cent) were trading down in the oil & gas index around that time.

Benchmark BSE Sensex was 95 points up at 33,888, while the NSE Nifty50 index was 26 points up at 10,469.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty50 index, 26 were trading in the green, while 23 were in the red. One stock was appearing unchanged.

Tata Steel, Larsen & Toubro, Coal India and Dr Reddy's Labs were trading as the top gainers in the Sensex index.

Meanwhile, Sun Pharma, Wipro, Hero MotoCorp and YES Bank were experiencing selling pressure.