Spot market natural gas prices for Friday, Aug. 22

- 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas on spot market costs 11,724.28 Turkish liras

The trade volume on Türkiye's spot natural gas market showed a decrease of 25.2% to around 17.37 million Turkish liras on Friday, Türkiye's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Saturday.

Total trade on Thursday amounted to about 23.23 million liras.

On Friday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 11,724.28 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 1.48 million cubic meters.

Türkiye received around 144.49 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Friday.

US$1 equals 33.89 liras at 2.25 p.m. local time (1125 GMT) on Saturday.

By Duygu Alhan

Anadolu Agency

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