The trade volume on T眉rkiye's spot natural gas market showed an increase of 70.5% to around 5.12 million Turkish liras on Thursday, T眉rkiye's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Friday.
Total trade on Wednesday amounted to about 8.73 million liras.
On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 13,587.77 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 379,000 cubic meters.
T眉rkiye received about 135.44 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Thursday.
US$1 equals 38.81 liras at 2.00 p.m. local time (1100 GMT) on Friday.
By Basak Erkalan
Anadolu Agency
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