A drone hit the Khor Mor gas field in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region on Sunday night, suspending production at the field, sources have told Reuters.
The report said that the drone struck a storage tank, causing a fire that was still raging. The Khor Mor gas field, owned by the UAE-based Dana Gas, has been attacked multiple times in recent years, though no one has claimed responsibility for the strike so far.
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) electricity ministry said its electricity generation capacity will drop by 2,800 megawatts after the field shut down production.
Rudaw reported that Telegram channels affiliated with Iraq’s Iran-aligned Shia militias said the attack was carried out using a “suicide drone,” but there was no sign that the posts included a claim of responsibility.
The Rudaw report said that it “came after nearly a four-month lull in attacks targeting the field on which the Kurdistan Region relies to generate the majority of its electricity and supply household cooking gas.”
The drone attack appeared to occur after Iranian media reported that the US launched strikes against Iran’s Qeshm Island, attacks that have become common over the past week. The US has also been ramping up its military presence in the region as it prepares for the possibility of resuming the full-scale bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic.
