The Khor Mor gas field was targeted by a drone attack on Wednesday evening launched by unknown groups, forcing a halt to all gas deliveries to power stations, which could cause potential electricity blackouts.
“At 11:30 pm tonight, a drone strike on the Khor Mor gas field caused a complete interruption of gas supplies to the region’s power stations,” the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Natural Resources and Ministry of Electricity said in a joint statement.
“Teams from the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Electricity, and Dana Gas are currently on site investigating the incident and working to stabilize the situation. We will provide further updates as more information becomes available.”
I condemn the cowardly attack on the Khor Mor gas field in the strongest terms and urge the federal government to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
— Masrour Barzani (@masrourbarzani) November 26, 2025
Last Sunday, security forces fired at a drone to prevent it from reaching the Khor Mor gas field, Reuters reported.
“I condemn the cowardly attack on the Khor Mor gas field in the strongest terms and urge the federal government to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice,” KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani posted on X after the attack.
Read More: Drone Attack Targets Khor Mor Gas Field
This is not the first attack on Khor Mor, which was also targeted in February.
“The usual terrorists or whoever may be behind tonight’s attacks cannot be allowed to repeat these crimes or be released on bail, as in the past,” Prime Minister Barzani added.
“I also urge our American and international partners to provide the defensive equipment necessary to protect our civilian infrastructure, and to support us in taking serious action to deter these attacks on our people and our progress.”
On April 26, 2024, four Yemeni workers were killed in a drone attack carried out by unknown perpetrators on the Khor Mor field.
Furthermore, drone strikes also targeted oil fields in the Kurdistan Region in July.
“We hope these attacks will come to an end — not only those that targeted us, but also those affecting many other companies,” said Abdulla al-Qadi, Executive Director for Exploration and Production at Crescent Petroleum, at the Middle East Research Institute Forum in October in Erbil. Crescent Petroleum, together with Dana Gas, operates the Khor Mor gas field.
Production from the Khor Mor gas processing plant and the 180-kilometer pipeline supplies gas-to-power stations in Chamchamal, Bazian, and Erbil, generating over 2,000 MW of electricity.
“The attack on the Khor Mor gas facility comes just two weeks after Iraq’s elections, in which Shi’a militia-linked parties, including groups designated by the United States as terrorist organizations, performed strongly, with some doubling their parliamentary representation,” Yerevan Saeed, Director of the Global Kurdish Initiative for Peace at American University, told Kurdistan Chronicle. “The attack underscores a brazen escalation by actors who appear emboldened by these electoral gains and willing to undermine not only the Kurdistan Region economy, but also challenge a core pillar of the Trump administration’s foreign policy agenda: energy and commercial engagement.”
Mohammed Salih, a senior fellow at the U.S.-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, added that the attacks challenge U.S. statements about disarming the militias, and setting that as a red line. “Through these attacks, these militias are basically stating that they do not heed U.S. concerns, and that they will continue to act as they see fit.”
Dana Gas, in a later statement on Thursday, said that a liquid storage tank had been struck in a rocket attack, resulting in a production shutdown to extinguish the fire, and confirmed that no personnel were injured.
