NEW DELHI: Gains in GAIL (India) (up 1.82 per cent), ONGC (up 0.90 per cent), Reliance Industries (up 0.39 per cent) and Oil India (up 0.19 per cent) were keeping the oil & gas index up in Friday's session.The BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.32 per cent up at 15,202 around 01:20 pm.
However, Castrol India (down 1.26 per cent), Petronet LNG (down 1.03 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (down 0.59 per cent) and HPCL (down 0.12 per cent) were down.
Shares of Indian Oil Corporation and BPCL were flat around that time.
Market was trading higher on gains in most sectors, led by bank, financial, pharma and metal stocks.
Benchmark BSE Sensex was up 293 points at 37,458, while the NSE Nifty50 index was up 83 points at 11,328.
Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 34 were trading in the green, while 16 were in the red.
In the Sensex index, 23 stocks were advancing, but 8 were declining.
Vedanta, YES Bank, Coal India and Axis Bank were leading among Sensex gainers.
Hero MotoCorp, Asian Paints, Tata Motors and Bharti Airtel were among the Sensex losers.