The trade volume on T眉rkiye's spot natural gas market showed an increase of 424.8% to 43.4 million Turkish liras on Monday, T眉rkiye's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Tuesday.
Total trade on Sunday amounted to 8.27 million liras.
On Monday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 20,598.45 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 2.1 million cubic meters.
T眉rkiye received 179.61 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Monday.
US$1 equals 18.64 liras at 2.43 p.m. local time (1143 GMT) on Tuesday.
By Sibel Morrow
Anadolu Agency
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