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

Shares of Petronet LNG (up 4.26 per cent), Castrol India (up 2.74 per cent), Reliance Industries (up 2.6 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (up 2.37 per cent), GAIL (India) (up 2.37 per cent), HPCL (up 2.32 per cent), Indian Oil Corporation (up 1.92 per cent), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (up 0.87 per cent) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 0.54 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 1.94 per cent up at 11075.86 around 02:08PM.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 86.10 points at 9011.4 , while the BSE Sensex was up 277.28 points at 30657.09 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 39 were trading in the green, while 11 were in the red.

Shares of Vodafone Idea, Zee Ent., SBI, Tata Motors, ICICI Bank, Vedanta , L&T Fin Holding, IndusInd Bank and BHEL were among the most traded shares on the NSE.