The Norwegian oil company DNO on Thursday announced that it had ramped up gross production after it was hit twice last month by drone strikes.

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“While months-long repairs are pending and security concerns remain following drone strikes on DNO-operated fields in Kurdistan, DNO has ramped up gross production on a test basis to 55,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day,” DNO said.

“With revenues secured through local sales, in addition to long-term repairs, DNO is planning to recommence drilling to return to pre-Iraq-Turkey Pipeline shutdown production levels of 100,000 boepd,” the company added.

DNO said that no individuals were injured by the strikes, but surface processing equipment at Peshkabir and an oil storage tank at Tawke were hit.

On July 16, DNO said that operations at Tawke field were suspended following the drone attack.

ShaMaran Petroleum Corp in a report on August 6 said the drone attacks were reportedly carried out by pro-Iranian militias in Iraq seeking to disrupt the negotiations between the federal government of Iraq, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and international oil companies (IOCs) on the resumption of oil exports that were halted in 2023 after the ruling of an arbitration court in Paris.

The KRG Ministry of Natural Resources reached a deal with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil on April 11 on a new mechanism for oil exports from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

However, the resumption of oil exports from the Kurdistan Region also needs coordination with Turkey, which reportedly approved the exports recently, and negotiations with the IOCs operating in the Kurdistan Region.