Spot market natural gas prices for Thursday, May 20

- 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas on spot market costs 1,738 Turkish liras

The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market decreased by 10.24% to 9.81 million Turkish liras on Thursday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Friday.

Total trade on Wednesday amounted to 10.93 million liras.

On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,738 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 5.64 million cubic meters.

Turkey received 115.26 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Thursday.

US$1 equals 8.36 Turkish liras at 1122 GMT on Friday.

By Gokce Kucuk Topbas

Anadolu Agency

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