A drone attack halted production at Iraq’s Khor Mor gas field, removing nearly 2.8 GW of power output from the grid.

The attack affected a gas field in Sulaymaniyah province in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Financial_Express, citing Xinhua, reported that a drone of unknown origin struck the field at approximately 23:00 local time on November 8. Production stopped following the attack.

The reported grid impact was nearly 2.8 gigawatts of lost power output. FinancialJuice attributed that figure to the Kurdistan region’s electricity ministry. It measures the electricity-output loss following the incident, not the field’s gas-production volume or a quantity of destroyed generation equipment.

An engineer at the site reported damage to gas-storage infrastructure. According to Financial_Express, an explosives-laden drone hit a gas-storage facility, causing a fire and black smoke. Iraq’s security media center subsequently said preliminary information indicated no casualties, and the prime minister ordered a joint investigation committee to establish the circumstances.