Spot market natural gas prices for Thursday, Jan. 5

- 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas on spot market costs 19,546.82 Turkish liras

The trade volume on Türkiye's spot natural gas market showed an increase of 515% to 248.84 million Turkish liras on Thursday, Türkiye's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Friday.

Total trade on Wednesday amounted to 40.45 million liras.

On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 19,546.82 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 12.73 million cubic meters.

Türkiye received 224.16 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Thursday.

US$1 equals 18.77 liras at 2 p.m. local time (1100 GMT) on Friday.

By Zeynep Beyza Kilic

Anadolu Agency

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