Spot market natural gas prices for Thursday, July 16

-1,000 cubic meters of natural gas in spot market costs 1,280 Turkish liras

The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market decreased by 30.8% to 5.40 million Turkish liras on Thursday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Friday.

Total trade on Wednesday amounted to 7.81 million liras.

On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,280 liras, while the total natural gas trade volume amounted to 4.22 million cubic meters.

Turkey received 112 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Thursday.

US$1 equals 6.86 Turkish liras at 1137 GMT on Friday.

By Gokce Kucuk Topbas

Anadolu Agency

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