Four workers killed by drone attack on Iraq gas complex

Four Yemeni workers were killed by a drone attack on a gas complex in Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region on Friday, local authorities said.
Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid condemned the attack that resulted in “multiple deaths and injuries, and has impacted the local electricity supply network”.
“Our security services must investigate the incident without delay and hold the perpetrators accountable,” he said on social media platform X.
We strongly condemn the attack on Khor Mor gas field in Sulaymaniyah. It resulted in multiple deaths and injuries, and has impacted the local electricity supply network. Such criminal acts work against the interests of the state and our citizens, threatening stability and…
Kurdistan regional government representative Peshawa Hawramani told AFP that the field was also “severely damaged”.
A drone hit the site at about 6.45pm local time, Ramak Ramadan, district chief of Chamchamal, where the Khor Mor complex is located, said.
He said that it had hit a fuel storage tank.
The attack disrupted gas supply to the region’s power stations, resulting in the loss of 2,500 megawatts of electricity, local authorities said.
Efforts are under way to repair the damage and restore the gas supply.
Production has been suspended, an adviser to the Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister and a senior Kurdish politician told Reuters.
The site is owned by the UAE company Dana Gas.
The Pearl Consortium, Dana Gas and its affiliate Crescent Petroleum, have the rights to exploit Khor Mor and Chemchemal, two of Iraq’s biggest gasfields.
“The United States strongly condemns today’s attack on energy infrastructure in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
“Attacks like this are an affront to Iraq’s sovereignty,” Mr Miller said.
“We encourage the authorities to investigate and bring to justice those who are responsible.”
Iraqi security forces said they had formed an investigative committee to probe the attack, vowing that the “aggressors” would be punished.
The gasfield lies between the cities of Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah.
Unclaimed Katyusha rocket attacks hit the same complex several times in recent years without causing significant damage.
In January, two Katyusha rockets hit the gasfield, causing a fire, but no casualties were reported.
“These repeated attacks must stop,” Mr Hawramani said.