1400 MW restored in the Kurdistan Region after Khor Mor gas resumes

ERBIL — Electricity supply in the Kurdistan Region has returned toward normal after Dana Gas resumed deliveries from Khor Mor to power stations, with 1,400 megawatts restored to the grid over several hours, the KRG Electricity Ministry said. It is 400 MW more than it reported losing the day before.

The electricity and natural resources ministries worked with the field’s operator to bring gas transfers back toward normal levels, the ministry said. It has not explained why supplies were reduced, why they resumed, or how the restored figure relates to the 1,000 MW it said had been lost on Wednesday. Dana Gas has still made no public statement.

Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum operate Khor Mor in Sulaymaniyah governorate, the main fuel source for power generation across the Region, piped to stations including Chamchamal, Bazian and Erbil and supporting more than 2,000 MW. It underpins the KRG’s Runaki programme, which supplies round-the-clock public electricity and has been phasing out the neighbourhood diesel generators that households elsewhere in Iraq rely on to cover outages.

Generation fell by 2,500 MW in July when Dana Gas halted primary production at Khor Mor over what it called credible security threats. The field’s processing capacity rose to 750 million standard cubic feet a day after the KM250 expansion entered service in October last year, and in August the operators began supplying 100 million cubic feet a day to the federal Electricity Ministry’s Taza station in Kirkuk under a one-year agreement.