Spot market natural gas prices for Friday, August 20

- 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas on spot market costs 2,179 Turkish liras

The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market decreased by 31.3% to 4.08 million Turkish liras on Friday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Saturday.

Total trade on Thursday amounted to 5.94 million liras.

On Friday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 2,179 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to 1.87 million cubic meters.

Turkey received 136.02 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Friday.

US$1 equals 8.49 Turkish liras at 1110 GMT on Saturday.

By Gulsen Cagatay

Anadolu Agency

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