Among the components of the S&P BSE Oil&Gas index, Oil & Natural Gas Corpn Ltd (up 1.75%), Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (up 1.42%),GAIL (India) Ltd (up 1.37%),Reliance Industries Ltd (up 1.35%),Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (up 1.21%), were the top gainers. Among the other gainers were Linde India Ltd (up 0.69%), Petronet LNG Ltd (up 0.54%), and Indraprastha Gas Ltd (up 0.5%).
On the other hand, Adani Total Gas Ltd (down 0.5%), and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (down 0.45%) moved lower.
At 09:48 IST, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 138.32 or 0.19% at 71278.22.
The Nifty 50 index was up 54.25 points or 0.25% at 21576.35.
The S&P BSE Small-Cap index was up 487.25 points or 1.09% at 45388.15.
The S&P BSE 150 Midcap Index index was up 84.29 points or 0.64% at 13207.67.
On BSE,2167 shares were trading in green, 892 were trading in red and 92 were unchanged.