A drone attack on the Khor Mor gas field, in Sulaymaniyah province in Iraqi Kurdistan, halted production on the night of Sunday, November 8 and left more than 70% of the region without electricity, according to Al Jazeera, citing Iraqi and Kurdish officials.
Omid Ahmed, spokesperson for the Kurdish Electricity Ministry, said the attack cut gas to power plants in Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Bazian, Chamchamal and Duhok and took between 2,500 and 2,800 megawatts of generation off the grid, according to the official Iraqi News Agency, cited by Al Jazeera. The ministry is supplying hospitals and water stations from hydroelectric plants and plants running on other fuels.
Dana Gas, joint operator of the field, told the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange on Monday that production remains suspended, that the fire caused by the attack has been extinguished, that none of its personnel were injured and that the damage is being assessed, according to The National. Two ministry sources told Reuters, in a report carried by Asharq Al-Awsat, that a single drone hit a liquefied gas storage tank.
No one has claimed the attack. The Kurdish Electricity and Natural Resources ministries describe it as a "terrorist attack", and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has ordered a joint investigative committee with the Kurdish authorities. According to an initial assessment cited by al-Zaidi, there were no casualties. The sources consulted do not say when production will resume.
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