Spot market natural gas prices for Wednesday, August 12

- 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas on spot market costs 1,356 Turkish liras

The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 22% to 5.87 million Turkish liras on Wednesday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Thursday.

Total trade on Tuesday amounted to 4.81 million liras.

On Wednesday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,356 liras, while the total natural gas trade volume amounted to 4.43 million cubic meters.

Turkey received 116.09 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Wednesday.

US$1 equals 7.33 Turkish liras at 1105 GMT on Thursday.

By Murat Temizer

Anadolu Agency

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