The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 57% to 5.04 million Turkish liras on Sunday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Monday.
The trade volume on Saturday amounted to 3.21 million liras.
In the spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1.460,48 liras on Sunday while the total natural gas volume amounted to 3.44 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 85.62 million cubic meters of gas via pipeline on Sunday.
US$1 equals 5.67 Turkish liras as of Monday.
By Gulsen Cagatay
Anadolu Agency
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