The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market increased by 68% to 20.23 million Turkish liras on Tuesday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Wednesday.
Total trade on Monday amounted to 12.04 million liras.
On Tuesday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 3,418 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to 5.92 million cubic meters.
Turkey received 174.5 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Tuesday.
US$1 equals 9.32 Turkish liras at 1132 GMT on Wednesday.
By Nuran Erkul Kaya
Anadolu Agency
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