Spot market natural gas prices for Friday, Aug. 15

- 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas on spot market costs 14,437.62 Turkish liras

The trade volume on Türkiye's spot natural gas market showed an increase of around 10.9% to around 8.85 million Turkish liras on Friday, Türkiye's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Saturday.

Total trade on Thursday amounted to about 7.98 million liras.

On Friday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 14,437.62 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 615,000 cubic meters.

Türkiye received about 137 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Friday.

US$1 equals 40.83 liras at 2.22 p.m. local time (1122 GMT) on Saturday.

By Handan Kazanci

Anadolu Agency

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