The Norwegian oil company DNO on Tuesday announced that it had restored gross production to approximately 75,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) following drone strikes that hit the company’s infrastructure last summer, and that it plans to increase production to 100,000 boepd after the drilling of new wells.

“In Kurdistan, gross production at the Tawke license, where DNO holds a 75% operated interest, averaged 46,600 boepd in the third quarter of 2025, down 38% from the previous quarter following damage from drone strikes in mid-July. With rapid repairs, gross production has been restored to approximately 75,000 boepd currently,” DNO said.

Furthermore, the oil company said that, despite the resumption of Kurdish oil exports through the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline in late September – after a two-and-a-half-year suspension – DNO continues to sell its share of oil to local buyers under existing contracts at prices in the low $30s per barrel, on a cash-and-carry basis.

DNO says that these buyers, in turn, deliver the oil to the export pipeline under arrangements negotiated with the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Furthermore, the company is planning to restart drilling at the Kurdish Tawke and Peshkabir fields and Sindy rigs mobilized to drill eight wells in 2026, aiming to increase the two fields to 100,000 boepd in gross operated production.

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Fields operated by DNO were hit twice in July in a wave of drone strikes carried out by militia groups on Kurdish oil fields.

During the MERI Forum in early October, Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani called on Baghdad to stop these attacks.

“These forces are compensated by the very institutions of the Iraqi government, and they are the same entities that utilize drones against the Kurdistan Region. This must come to an end. If it does not, the Kurdistan Region will react,” he warned.