Spot market natural gas prices for Thursday, Aug. 22

- 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas on spot market costs 11,733.17 Turkish liras

The trade volume on Türkiye's spot natural gas market showed an increase of 138.5% to around 23.23 million Turkish liras on Thursday, Türkiye's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Friday.

Total trade on Wednesday amounted to about 9.74 million liras.

On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 11,733.17 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 1.98 million cubic meters.

Türkiye received around 149.06 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Thursday.

US$1 equals 34.01 liras at 2.35 p.m. local time (1135 GMT) on Friday.

By Fuat Kabakci

Anadolu Agency

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