Spot market natural gas prices for Friday, Jan. 22

- 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas on spot market costs 1,296 Turkish liras

The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market decreased by 7.43% to 2.99 million Turkish liras on Friday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Saturday.

Total trade on Thursday amounted to 3.23 million liras.

On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,296 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to 2.30 million cubic meters.

Turkey received 245.6 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Friday.

US$1 equals 7.41 Turkish liras at 1147 GMT on Saturday.

By Sibel Morrow

Anadolu Agency

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