The trade volume of Turkey's spot natural gas market decreased by 4% to 6.97 million Turkish liras on Thursday, Turkey's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Friday.
Total trade on Wednesday amounted to 7.26 million liras.�
On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 1,470 liras, while the total trade volume of natural gas amounted to 4.74 million cubic meters.�
Turkey received 194.31 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Thursday.
US$1 equals 5.99 Turkish liras on Friday at 1248 GMT.
By Gokce Kucuk Topbas
Anadolu Agency�