A drone attack on Iraq’s Khor Mor gas field on Sunday night halted production and cut power across the Kurdistan region, according to regional officials and the field’s operator, Dana Gas. The strike hit an LPG storage tank, triggering a fire and forcing employees into shelters, according to two regional electricity ministry sources quoted by Reuters.
Dana Gas said the facility was subject to a suspected drone attack on the night of 8 November 2026, which caused a fire that has since been extinguished, with no injuries to personnel. Production remains suspended while the damage is being assessed, the company said. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi said an initial assessment indicated the attack had caused no casualties, according to reports.
Power loss across the Kurdish region
The Kurdistan region’s electricity ministry said the attack took about 2.8 gigawatts of power generation offline, with ministry figures cited by reports putting the loss at between 2,500 and 2,800 megawatts. Gas supply to power plants in Erbil, Sulaimaniyah, Bazian, Chamchamal and Duhok was suspended, according to Omid Ahmed, a spokesman for the Kurdish electricity ministry, cited by the official Iraqi News Agency.
According to the Erbil Electricity Distribution Company, more than 70 percent of households in the Kurdish region experienced a power outage. The ministry said it would give priority to hospitals and water stations, running hydropower stations at Dukan and Darbandikhan and plants burning alternative fuel, according to reports. Restoration of normal supply depends on gas production restarting at Khor Mor, according to Kurdish reporting.
No claim of responsibility
No group has claimed responsibility, and investigators had not publicly identified a responsible party by midday on Monday. Security sources cited in Kurdish media said the projectile may have been launched from the direction of Tuz Khurmatu, a disputed district south of Kirkuk, though that claim has not been independently confirmed, according to reports.
Khor Mor, in Chamchamal district in Sulaymaniyah province, is operated by Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum through the Pearl Petroleum consortium, and is one of the most important gas sources for power plants in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. The KM250 expansion, commissioned in October 2025, added 250 million standard cubic feet per day of processing capacity, taking the total to 750 million, according to reports.
The field has been attacked before. A drone strike in November 2025 set a storage tank on fire and halted supplies, and an April 2024 attack killed four foreign workers, according to reports. Baghdad and Erbil have opened a joint committee to investigate the latest attack, according to Kurdish reporting. For residents, the immediate question is how long the blackouts last; for Iraq, it is whether a gas field that powers a whole region can be protected from a weapon that has now struck it repeatedly.
