Spot market natural gas prices for Wednesday, Aug. 21

- 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas on spot market costs 11,798.35 Turkish liras

The trade volume on Türkiye's spot natural gas market showed an increase of 184.8% to around 9.74 million Turkish liras on Wednesday, Türkiye's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Thursday.

Total trade on Tuesday amounted to about 3.42 million liras.

On Wednesday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 11,798.35 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 826,000 cubic meters.

Türkiye received around 161.82 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Wednesday.

US$1 equals 33.93 liras at 2.29 p.m. local time (1129 GMT) on Thursday.

By Duygu Alhan

Anadolu Agency

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