Dana Gas said on Monday that production at the Khor Mor facility in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region remained suspended after a suspected drone attack caused a fire the previous night. In a disclosure issued from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, the company said the fire had been extinguished and no personnel were injured.
The company said damage was still being assessed, according to its November 9 disclosure to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (reference 20261109091830-DANA), listed among its ADX company disclosures. Dana Gas described the incident as a suspected drone attack, not a confirmed finding about the weapon or who was responsible.
Dana Gas said it was coordinating with the Kurdistan Regional Government and Iraq’s federal authorities and would provide further updates. It did not give a production-restart date, quantify the damage or put a cost on repairs. The continued suspension leaves the timing of the facility’s return to service unresolved even though the fire is out.
A reported strike on the Khor Mor gas field in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region late Sunday halted production, threatening electricity and household cooking-gas supplies as officials prepared backup power generation.
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s electricity ministry said generation capacity would fall by 2,800 megawatts after the field went offline. The field supplies gas used to generate much of the region’s electricity and provides household cooking gas.
Omed Ahmad, spokesperson for the regional electricity ministry, said that hydropower stations at the Dukan and Darbandikhan dams, along with alternative-fuel power stations, would be activated to limit the shortage.
Ahmad said the measures were intended to prevent a wider blackout and prioritize essential facilities, including hospitals and water stations. He said the full effect of the power shortage was expected from midnight Sunday and that restoring normal electricity supplies depended on gas production resuming at Khor Mor.
For households, the immediate concern is the reliability of power and cooking-gas supply. The reported shutdown puts the focus on how much backup generation can be brought online while the region awaits the field’s return to production.
Update: Iraq’s commander-in-chief, Ali Falih al-Zaidi, ordered a joint investigation with the relevant authorities in the Kurdistan Region into the attack on the Khor Mor gas field in Chamchamal district, Sulaimaniyah province, according to a statement from his office’s security media unit published verbatim by the Iraqi News Agency. The statement placed the attack at 11:10 p.m. Iraq time on Sunday, November 8, equivalent to 3:10 p.m. Eastern. Preliminary information indicated there were no human casualties, the statement said. It did not identify an attacker or establish a weapon type, production loss or electricity-outage figure.
JBizNews Desk | Erbil
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