Dana Gas suspends production at Iraq’s Khor Mor field

ERBIL, March 5, 2026 – Dana Gas has temporarily suspended production at the Khor Mor gasfield in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region due to the ongoing regional security situation, the company said on Wednesday.

The suspension began on February 28 and was carried out in co-ordination with the Kurdistan Regional Government’s ministries of natural resources and electricity as a precautionary measure. The plant is being purged and maintained in operational condition so it can be restarted in an optimum manner when appropriate.

Regional conflict involving Iran, Israel and the US intensified on Thursday with fresh drone and missile strikes across the Middle East, raising concerns for energy infrastructure and supply chains as oil markets remained volatile. Iranian drones landed in Azerbaijan near the Iranian border while Tehran launched additional strikes in Israel and Iraq and targeted sites in the Gulf region including energy installations, prompting Gulf states to bolster air defences and European countries to deploy military assets to protect regional interests as the US military continued operations against Iranian missile launchers and tensions threatened broader disruption to oil and gas markets.

The Khor Mor gasfield is the cornerstone of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s domestic gas supply and power generation system. The Kurdistan Gas Project was established in 2007 after Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum signed an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government for the development of the Khor Mor and Chemchemal fields, with gas from the Khor Mor processing plant and a 180 kilometres pipeline supplying power stations in Chemchemal, Bazian and Erbil and generating over 2 GW of electricity.

Production from the Khor Mor facilities began in October 2008 and capacity has expanded through several upgrades, rising from 305 mcf per day in 2018 to 500 mcf per day by the end of 2022, with record output of 525 mcf per day achieved in March 2025.

Cumulative production from the Khor Mor field reached 500 million boe in natural gas and liquids in 2025. Independent audits have estimated Dana Gas’ share of 2P reserves in the Khor Mor and Chemchemal fields at 4.4 tcf of gas, 136 million boe of condensate and 13.3 million tonnes of LPG.

The fields are operated by Pearl Petroleum, a consortium formed in 2009 in which Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum each hold 35% stakes alongside OMV, MOL and RWE with 10% each. The partners are developing expansion projects including the KM250 gas processing train, which raised processing capacity to 750 mcf per day on its launch in October.

Dana Gas is a UAE-based upstream company focused on the exploration, development and production of natural gas and associated hydrocarbons across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Its key producing assets are in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Egypt, supplying gas for power generation and industrial use.

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