Spot market natural gas prices for Tuesday, Aug. 19

- 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas on spot market costs 14,408.62 Turkish liras

The trade volume on Türkiye's spot natural gas market showed an increase of around 60.8% to around 7.8 million Turkish liras on Tuesday, Türkiye's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Wednesday.

Total trade on Monday amounted to about 4.85 million liras.

On Tuesday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 14,408.62 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 541,000 cubic meters.

Türkiye received about 145 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Tuesday.

US$1 equals 40.92 liras at 2.47 p.m. local time (1147 GMT) on Wednesday.

By Baran Isik

Anadolu Agency

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