Khor Mor Production Stays Suspended After Suspected Drone Attack, Dana Gas Says

Production at Iraq's Khor Mor gas field remains suspended after a suspected drone attack, operator Dana Gas said Monday, giving no restart date.

Dana Gas said it was assessing the damage after dousing a fire sparked by the attack. The United Arab Emirates-based company reported no injuries to staff.

The attack took out regional power generation

About 2.8 gigawatts of power generation in the Kurdistan region was taken out by the attack. The region's electricity ministry gave that figure in a statement.

Two sources in the region's electricity ministry said a single drone strike hit the LPG storage tank. LPG, or liquefied petroleum gas, is a fuel the field stores and sells.

The sources said the strike caused the fire at the tank. Employees were evacuated to shelters inside the facility after the attack.

The region's natural resources and electricity ministries called the incident a "terrorist attack" in a joint statement. They said they were working to minimize its impact.

A field that carries the region's electricity

Khor Mor is one of the largest gas fields in the Kurdistan region. Its plant provides fuel for more than 80% of the Kurdistan Region's electricity generation, Dana Gas says.

The KM250 expansion, completed and commissioned in October 2025, added 250 MMscf/d of capacity. MMscf/d means million standard cubic feet per day, a gas-flow measure.

That raised total processing capacity to 750 MMscf/d, a 50% rise on the prior base. Production reached about 700 MMscf/d in December 2025, the company says.

Pearl Petroleum, the operating consortium, is owned 35% each by Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum. OMV, MOL and RWE hold 10% each.

A repeated target, with no claim this time

There was no claim of responsibility for Sunday's attack. No group or government has been identified as carrying it out.

Kurdish officials have previously blamed Iranian-backed militias for attacks on the field. That is a prior pattern, not an attribution for this attack.

In July, Dana Gas shut the field's main production facilities, citing credible security threats and regional tension. It restarted production later that same month.

What remains unknown

What remains unknown starts with the damage itself. Dana Gas is still assessing it, and the company has given no timetable for restarting production.

Who carried out the suspected attack is also unknown. The single-drone account rests on ministry sources speaking anonymously, not on an official finding.

The restart decision is the next test

What to watch: any restart timetable from Dana Gas. A dated plan would show the damage assessment has turned into a repair program.

Watch also for updated power figures from the region's electricity ministry. Those will show whether the generation taken out is being replaced.