Share market update: OMCs trade in the green; BPCL rises 3%

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

Shares of Petronet LNG (up 6.33 per cent), Bharat Petroleum Corporation (up 3.31 per cent), Indraprastha Gas (up 2.45 per cent), Castrol India (up 2.24 per cent), Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (up 1.71 per cent), Gujarat State Petronet (up 1.05 per cent) and HPCL (up 0.25 per cent) were among the top gainers.

The S&P BSE Oil & Gas index was trading 0.36 per cent up at 9324.77 around 02:07 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 167.70 points at 8485.55 , while the BSE Sensex was up 639.57 points at 29175.35 .

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 34 were trading in the green, while 15 were in the red.

Shares of JSW Steel, Vodafone Idea, Larsen & Toubro, YES Bank, SBI, Ashok Leyland, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, Tata Motors and IndusInd Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.