ERBIL — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has ordered the federal Oil Ministry to supply the Kurdistan Region with liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) until production resumes at the Khor Mor gas field, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Natural Resources announced on Monday, Kurdistan24 reported. The ministry said al-Zaidi approved the KRG's request and instructed the Oil Ministry to provide the necessary quantity of liquefied gas to residents of the Kurdistan Region, and that it would make every effort to prevent problems or shortages of household gas until Khor Mor's output returns to normal.

Source: Kurdistan24 via Hatha Alyoum, Nov 9 2026

The supply order is the federal response to Sunday night's suspected drone attack on Khor Mor, which halted production and cut power across much of the Kurdistan Region. Read the original attack report

The attack struck at about 11:10 p.m. on Sunday in the Qadir Karam area of Chamchamal district, in Sulaymaniyah province, hitting the field's LPG facilities and starting a fire. Dana Gas, the UAE-based operator that runs Khor Mor through the Pearl Petroleum consortium with Crescent Petroleum, kept production suspended on Monday while it assessed the damage; the company said the fire had been extinguished and no personnel were injured, and it gave no restart date. Al-Zaidi has also ordered a joint investigation with the Kurdistan Region authorities, and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Source: The Insight International, Nov 9 2026

On the ground on Monday, residents queued at LPG filling stations, and officials moved to calm fears of a cooking-gas shortage: officials in Sulaymaniyah said household gas stocks would last more than a month, and Erbil Governor Omed Khoshnaw said there was no problem with supplies. LPG is the fuel most homes in the region use for cooking and heating, which is why a prolonged Khor Mor shutdown would be felt in kitchens long before it shows up in oil markets. The KRG statement did not say how much gas Baghdad would send or when deliveries would begin.

Source: The Insight International, Nov 9 2026

A familiar emergency arrangement

Baghdad made a similar arrangement in July, when Khor Mor was shut over security threats and the federal Oil Ministry agreed to meet the region's daily demand for household gas. Khor Mor, one of the largest gas fields in the Kurdistan Region, has been hit repeatedly by rocket and drone attacks in recent years, and its gas feeds power stations in Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Bazian, Chamchamal and Duhok. Electricity officials said they would try to keep hospitals and water treatment plants supplied using hydroelectric stations and alternative-fuel plants while gas-fired generation is down.

What happens next

Two clocks now run together: Dana Gas's damage assessment, which decides when Khor Mor can restart, and Baghdad's promised LPG deliveries, which decide whether household supplies hold in the meantime. If the restart slips beyond the month of stocks officials described, the federal supply line becomes the difference between a power crisis and a cooking-and-heating crisis as winter approaches in the Kurdish hills.