StockMarketWire.com - Trading in oil and gas stocks was generally quiet after the Christmas break with weekly figures for US natural gas storage and crude oil inventories put back until tomorrow (28 December).

Oil giant BP [LON:BP.] reported that it has transferred 715,894 ordinary shares from treasury to participants in its employee share schemes.

BP now holds 1,823,454,471 ordinary shares in treasury and has 19,135,512,546 in issue.

And Coastal Energy reported share transactions by chief executive Randy Bartley and [LON:CEO] chief financial officer William Phelps.

Regal Petroleum [LON:RPT] was the sector's biggest riser - up by nearly 8% in late afternoon trading - while the biggest fallers were Caza Oil & Gas [LON:CAZA] and Oilex [LON:OEX] - down by nearly 8% and more than 5% respectively.







At 4:16pm:

[LON:AUR] Aurum Mining share price was 0p at 3.5p

[LON:BOR] share price was +0.88p at 20.63p

[LON:BP.] BP share price was -2.9p at 427.8p

[LON:CAZA] share price was -1.38p at 16p

[LON:CEO] share price was +17.5p at 1237.5p

[LON:CHAR] share price was +0.13p at 27.13p

[LON:DES] Desire Petroleum share price was -0.37p at 18.38p

[LON:DGO] Dragon Oil share price was +1.25p at 523.75p

[LON:ENQ] share price was +1.85p at 119.15p

[LON:FOGL] Falkland Oil and Gas Limited share price was +0.13p at 28.38p

[LON:GKP] Gulf Keystone Petroleum share price was +10.38p at 174.38p

[LON:GPX] share price was +0.75p at 115.75p

[LON:INDI] share price was -30p at 1007.5p

[LON:OEX] share price was 0p at 4.25p

[LON:PET] Petrel Resources share price was +1.01p at 17.13p

[LON:RKH] share price was +0.25p at 151.75p

[LON:RPT] Regal Petroleum share price was +2.38p at 32.75p

[LON:XEL] share price was +4.13p at 90.88p



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