The trade volume on T眉rkiye's spot natural gas market showed an increase of 318.5% to 14.19 million Turkish liras on Thursday, T眉rkiye's Energy Exchange Istanbul (EXIST) data showed on Friday.
Total trade on Wednesday amounted to 3.39 million liras.
On Thursday's spot market, 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas cost 26,288 liras, while the cumulative natural gas trade volume amounted to around 540,000 cubic meters.
T眉rkiye received 114.335 million cubic meters of pipeline gas on Thursday.
US$1 equals 18.28 liras at 02.42 p.m. local time (1143 GMT) on Friday.
By Gokce Kucuk Topbas
Anadolu Agency
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