NEW DELHI: The BSE Oil & Gas index was trading higher in Tuesday's session.

Shares of HPCL (up 9.66 per cent), Reliance Industries (up 8.93 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 8.04 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (up 6.14 per cent), GAIL (India) (up 4.95 per cent), Castrol India (up 4.91 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (up 4.59 per cent), Gujarat State Petronet (up 3.43 per cent), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (up 2.86 per cent) and Petronet LNG (up 2.66 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 6.15 per cent up at 10622.73 around 01:36 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 542.55 points at 8626.35 , while the BSE Sensex was up 1882.77 points at 29473.72 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 48 were trading in the green, while 2 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, SBI, YES Bank, SAIL, JSPL, RBL Bank Ltd., ICICI Bank, ITC, Tata Motors and IndusInd Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.