Share market update: BSE Oil & Gas index up; IGL, RIL among top gainers

NEW DELHI: OMCs were trading in the green in Friday's session with their sectoral index on BSE trading higher.

Shares of Indraprastha Gas (up 1.86 per cent) , Castrol India (up 1.85 per cent) , Reliance Industries (up 1.80 per cent) and Petronet LNG (up 1.37 per cent) were trading in the positive zone.

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (up 1.19 per cent) , Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 0.50 per cent) , Oil And Natural Gas Corporation (up 0.28 per cent) and Indian Oil Corporation (up 0.07 per cent) too were trading higher.


The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.84 per cent up at 15,291.61 around 10:56 am.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 47.85 points at 11,634.20 while the BSE Sensex was up 165.58 points at 39,217.64.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 30 were trading in the green, while 20 were in the red.

Shares of YES Bank, Vodafone Idea, BHEL, SAIL, Tata Motors, GMR Infra, L&T Fin Holding, NBCC and NCC were among the most traded shares on the NSE.