In This Article
- Introduction
- 1. What Happened at Khor Mor on Sunday Night
- 2. The Power Cut Across Kurdistan
- 3. Why Khor Mor Matters to Iraq’s Energy Map
- 4. Who Runs the Field and Who Supplies the Gas
- 5. No Claim of Responsibility
- 6. The Joint Investigation Ordered From Baghdad
- 7. A Field Attacked Before
- 8. What Comes Next
Production stopped on Sunday night at Iraq’s Khor Mor gas field after a suspected drone attack set fire to a storage tank, cutting about 2.8 gigawatts of electricity generation from the Kurdistan Region’s grid and leaving one of the country’s most important energy sites offline while engineers assess the damage. The field’s operator, Dana Gas, said the fire had been put out and no member of staff was hurt, but gas flows to the power stations that depend on Khor Mor stayed suspended into Monday, with no date given for a restart. Officials in the Kurdistan Region described the incident as a terrorist attack, the federal government in Baghdad ordered a joint investigation with the regional authorities, and no group had claimed responsibility by Monday. The strike landed on a facility that has been hit before, in a region where gas fields have become recurring targets, and it arrived just as winter demand was about to test a power network that already runs close to its limits. This is the story of what happened at Khor Mor on the night of November 8, 2026, why the field matters so much to northern Iraq, and what remains unknown about who launched the attack and when the gas will flow again — the Khor Mor gas field drone attack Iraq November 2026.
1. What Happened at Khor Mor on Sunday Night
The attack came late on Sunday, November 8, 2026, at a field in the Chamchamal district of Sulaimaniyah province, in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. Dana Gas, the United Arab Emirates-based company that operates the site, said in a statement on Monday that the facility had been hit by a suspected drone attack during the night, and a statement from the office of Iraq’s prime minister placed the attack at about 11:10 p.m. local time. Two sources in the region’s electricity ministry told the Reuters news agency that a single drone strike had hit the field’s liquefied petroleum gas storage tank, setting off a fire that burned through the night before it was brought under control. Photographs published by the Kurdistan24 news outlet showed flames and smoke rising over the field, a sight that will be familiar to anyone who has followed the site’s troubled recent history. The regional natural resources and electricity ministries issued a joint statement describing the incident as a terrorist attack and saying they were working to limit its impact, while the federal authorities in Baghdad moved quickly to open an investigation. What is not yet settled, even a day on, is the exact weapon used: Dana Gas called it a suspected drone attack, one reporter at the scene said a source could not say whether the projectile was a drone or a rocket, and the claim about where it was launched from has not been independently confirmed.
1.1 The Strike on the LPG Storage Tank
The target, according to the accounts given to reporters, was the field’s liquefied petroleum gas storage tank, the part of the plant where gas is held before it is loaded for distribution. Two sources in the electricity ministry said a single drone hit the tank, and an engineer at the field told Reuters that a gas storage facility had been struck. Kurdistan24 reported that the strike hit the field’s Old Field section, which produces liquefied petroleum gas and had not been targeted in earlier attacks, although that detail has not been confirmed by the operator. The tank caught fire, and the blaze became the visible centre of the incident, with smoke rising over the site through the night. A storage tank is a difficult target to repair quickly, because it holds pressurised fuel and sits inside a plant full of pipes, compressors and processing units, so even a single hit can force a whole facility to shut down while engineers check every line around it. That is what happened here: the fire itself was put out, but production stayed suspended while the damage was assessed, and the operator gave no figure for how much had been destroyed or how long repairs would take. The choice of target also matters for what comes next, because a hit on storage rather than on the wells or the processing trains may mean a shorter outage, or it may not, and nobody outside the assessment teams yet knows which it is.
1.2 The Fire and the Move to Shelters
Inside the field, the immediate response was to get people to safety. All crew were ordered into shelters in case of further attacks, according to an engineer who spoke to Reuters, and staff stayed under cover while the fire burned. Dana Gas said the fire had been extinguished and that no injuries to personnel had been reported, a point repeated by Iraq’s prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, whose office said preliminary information indicated no fatalities. The absence of casualties is the one clear piece of good news in the incident, and it matters because gas plants are dangerous places when they burn: a storage fire can spread to neighbouring units, and the decision to shelter staff rather than fight the blaze from close quarters is standard practice at such sites. By Monday morning the fire was out, the staff were accounted for, and the company’s attention had shifted to the slower work of inspecting the plant. The operator said it was coordinating with the Kurdistan Regional Government and with the federal authorities in Baghdad, and that it would provide further updates to the market in due course. For the workers, though, the night was a reminder that the field is not only an industrial site but a place where people sleep, eat and work within range of weapons fired from miles away, and where the alarm to take shelter has now sounded more than once.
2. The Power Cut Across Kurdistan
The strike’s most immediate effect was felt far from the field itself, in the homes, hospitals and businesses of the Kurdistan Region that draw their electricity from gas-fired power stations. The region’s electricity ministry said the attack had taken about 2.8 gigawatts of power generation out of service, a loss that its spokesman, Omed Ahmed, put at between 2.5 and 2.8 gigawatts as gas supplies to the plants stopped. One report said more than 70 percent of the autonomous region had lost reliable power after the gas flows were cut, and ministry figures cited by Iraqi media put the generation loss at roughly three quarters of the region’s typical output when gas is flowing normally. The numbers describe a grid that leans heavily on a single source of fuel: when Khor Mor stops, the power stations it feeds stop with it, and there is no quick substitute for the gas that was flowing through its pipelines only hours earlier. Officials said they were preparing backup power generation, but backup units cannot replace the output of the region’s main gas field, and the outage arrived with winter approaching, when demand for heating and light rises. The scale of the cut is what turned a strike on a remote industrial site into a story about daily life for millions of people.
2.1 How Much Generation Went Offline
The figure of 2.8 gigawatts needs a little unpacking, because it is a measure of capacity rather than a count of the electricity that households actually went without. A gigawatt is a thousand megawatts, so 2.8 gigawatts is 2,800 megawatts of generating capacity taken offline, which is the amount of power the affected plants could have produced if they had kept running. The electricity ministry’s own range of 2.5 to 2.8 gigawatts reflects the uncertainty in the first hours, when officials were still working out which plants had stopped and how much of their output had been lost. The loss is large by any measure: it is roughly the output of several big power stations combined, and it represents a substantial share of a regional grid that is far smaller than the national grids of neighbouring countries. Some reports framed the cut as about three quarters of the region’s normal generation, a figure that shows how concentrated the Kurdistan Region’s power supply has become around gas from Khor Mor. The distinction between capacity and delivered energy matters for the recovery too, because capacity can return quickly if the gas starts flowing again, while the electricity that was not delivered during the outage is gone for good, along with the work, the cooling and the light it would have provided.
2.2 What the Blackout Means for Homes and Hospitals
For households, the loss of generation means longer cuts, darker evenings and a return to the generators and candles that many families in the region keep for exactly this reason. Khor Mor supplies gas to most of the power stations in northern Iraq, feeding plants that serve Erbil, Sulaimaniyah and Duhok, the region’s three big cities, as well as the towns and villages around them. Hospitals are the most exposed, because they cannot simply wait for the grid to return: they need steady power for operating theatres, for cold storage of medicines and for the machines that keep patients alive, and a sudden loss of supply forces them onto backup generators that burn fuel and can fail. Businesses face the same problem in a different form, with shops, workshops and offices losing the power they need to trade, and the cost of running private generators eating into thin margins. The field also supplies liquefied petroleum gas for household cooking, so the strike threatens not only the lights but the fuel that families use to cook their meals. Officials said backup generation was being prepared, but the gap between what backup units can provide and what a 2.8-gigawatt loss removes is wide, and the longer the field stays offline, the wider the effects will spread through daily life.
3. Why Khor Mor Matters to Iraq’s Energy Map
Khor Mor is not a small field on the edge of Iraq’s energy system; it is one of the largest gas fields in the Kurdistan Region and the main domestic source of gas for the region’s power plants. Its output feeds the stations that generate most of the electricity used in northern Iraq, and its liquefied petroleum gas supplies households across the region, which makes it a piece of infrastructure whose failure is felt immediately by millions of people. The field sits in the Chamchamal district of Sulaimaniyah province, in territory administered by the Kurdistan Regional Government, and its gas has become the backbone of a power system that was built around it. That centrality is both the field’s strength and its weakness: it gives the region a domestic source of fuel that does not depend on imports, but it also means that a single attack on a single site can remove a huge share of the region’s electricity in one night. Energy analysts often describe such facilities as single points of failure, and Khor Mor is a textbook example, a plant whose importance grows every year as the region’s demand for power rises and as new capacity is added around it. Understanding the attack means understanding that centrality, because the strike was not aimed at a marginal asset but at the heart of the region’s energy supply.
3.1 The Field’s Role in Kurdistan’s Power Supply
The gas from Khor Mor flows to the power stations that generate most of the Kurdistan Region’s electricity, and without it those stations have little to burn. The field is described by its operator and by regional officials as the biggest source of fuel for the region’s power plants, and the figures from this week’s outage support that description: when the field stopped, roughly three quarters of the region’s generation went with it. That dependence has grown over the years as the region has built more gas-fired capacity and as households and businesses have come to rely on a grid that, for all its faults, is fed mainly by Khor Mor gas. The alternative sources are limited: the region imports some electricity and runs some plants on other fuels, but nothing on the scale of Khor Mor’s contribution, and the pipelines that carry its gas are themselves part of the same vulnerable system. The field’s role also extends beyond electricity, because the liquefied petroleum gas it produces is used for cooking in homes across the region, so a shutdown touches daily life in two ways at once. This is why the attack drew statements from both the regional government and Baghdad within hours: a strike on Khor Mor is not a local incident at a remote plant, but an event that reaches into the kitchens and the hospitals of an entire region.
3.2 The KM250 Expansion and Rising Output
The field has been growing, which makes its sudden shutdown all the more striking. In October 2025, Dana Gas commissioned the KM250 expansion, which added 250 million standard cubic feet per day of processing capacity and took the field’s total to 750 million standard cubic feet per day. Production reached approximately 700 million standard cubic feet per day in December 2025, according to the operator’s disclosures, and the expansion also added capacity for about 7,000 barrels of condensate and 460 metric tons of liquefied petroleum gas a day. Those are installed processing capabilities, not confirmed production volumes immediately before Sunday’s attack, and the distinction matters: the field may have been producing below its full capacity on the night of the strike, and the operator has not said how much gas was flowing when the drone hit. Even so, the expansion shows the direction of travel, with investment flowing into a field that was meant to underpin the region’s power supply for years to come. The timing adds a further irony, because the attack came only two days after Dana Gas reported higher nine-month earnings, with net profit of 152 million dollars against 103 million a year earlier and revenue up 48 percent to 377 million dollars, according to Rudaw. A field that was expanding, earning more and supplying more gas is now silent, and the question for its owners is how much of that momentum survives the damage assessment.
4. Who Runs the Field and Who Supplies the Gas
Khor Mor is operated by Pearl Petroleum, a consortium that brings together Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum, two companies based in the United Arab Emirates, with Dana Gas as the partner that speaks publicly for the operation. Dana Gas is listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, and it disclosed the attack to the market on Monday, November 9, in a statement that described the incident as a suspected drone attack, said the fire had been extinguished, noted that no personnel were injured, and said production remained suspended while the damage was assessed. The company said it was coordinating with the Kurdistan Regional Government and with Iraq’s federal authorities and would provide further updates, but it gave no restart date, no figure for the damage and no estimate of the cost of repairs. The consortium structure matters because Khor Mor is not a state-run field but a commercial venture, and its investors watch its output closely: the company’s Kurdistan production averaged 42,300 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the nine months reported, up from 40,350 a year earlier, a figure that shows the field’s contribution to the company’s business. The attack therefore lands on two balance sheets at once, the region’s power supply and a listed company’s earnings, and both will be read in the market’s response in the days ahead.
4.1 Dana Gas, Crescent Petroleum and Pearl Petroleum
Pearl Petroleum is the vehicle through which Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum hold and operate the Khor Mor field, and the partnership has been the backbone of gas development in the Kurdistan Region for years. Dana Gas, based in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, is the partner that files the market disclosures and speaks to reporters when something goes wrong, and its November 9 disclosure to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange carried the reference number 20261109091830-DANA. The disclosure was careful in its language, calling the incident a suspected drone attack rather than a confirmed finding about the weapon or who was responsible, a caution that reflects both the fog of the first hours and the legal care that listed companies take with such statements. Crescent Petroleum, the other partner in the consortium, has been involved in the field’s development alongside Dana Gas, and the two companies have invested heavily in expanding its capacity, including the KM250 project completed last year. The consortium’s role goes beyond the field itself, because it also supplies gas to power stations outside the Kurdistan Region, which makes its reliability a matter of national as well as regional importance. For the companies, the immediate task is the damage assessment; for their investors, it is working out how long the field will be offline and what that means for the earnings that were rising only days ago.
4.2 The Kirkuk Supply Deal and Wider Contracts
Khor Mor’s gas does not stay inside the Kurdistan Region. In August 2026, Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum began supplying 100 million standard cubic feet per day to the Kirkuk Taza power station under an initial one-year agreement with Iraq’s electricity ministry, a deal that tied the field’s output to the national grid as well as the regional one. That agreement shows how the field’s role has widened beyond its original purpose, with gas from a Kurdish-administered site now feeding a power station in a disputed area under federal control. The arrangement is also a reminder of the politics that surround the field: gas deals between Erbil and Baghdad are negotiated against a background of long-running disputes over oil revenues, budgets and the control of resources, and every contract carries a weight beyond its commercial terms. The Kirkuk supply is one of the more visible signs of cooperation between the two governments, and its interruption, if the outage lasts, would be felt in Kirkuk as well as in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah. Other contracts and supply arrangements have not been detailed in the reporting so far, and the operator has not said which customers are affected by the shutdown or for how long. What is clear is that the field’s customers extend beyond the region that hosts it, and that the consequences of the attack will be counted in more than one government’s ledgers.
5. No Claim of Responsibility
By Monday, no group had claimed responsibility for the attack, and no official had named the people who launched it. That silence is itself part of the story, because attacks on energy infrastructure in Iraq are often followed quickly by claims or by accusations, and the absence of both leaves a gap that rumour and speculation rush to fill. Dana Gas called the incident a suspected drone attack without saying who it suspected, and the regional ministries called it a terrorist attack without identifying the attackers. A security source told Rudaw that the attack had been launched from the disputed town of Tuz Khurmatu, south of Kirkuk, but that claim has not been independently confirmed, and it should be treated with caution until the investigation reports. The lack of a claim does not mean the attack was random: the target was chosen, the weapon was prepared and the launch site was selected, and somebody made those decisions. It does mean, though, that the public record currently contains no reliable answer to the most basic question about the incident, which is who did it, and that every statement about responsibility in the first hours is either an accusation or a guess.
5.1 What Officials Have Said So Far
The official statements issued on Sunday night and Monday were short, factual and careful about what they did not say. The Kurdistan Region’s natural resources and electricity ministries said in a joint statement that at 11 p.m. the Khor Mor gas field had come under a terrorist attack, and that they were working to minimise its impact. The electricity ministry said generation would drop by between 2,500 and 2,800 megawatts, a figure that gave the public its first sense of the scale of the outage. Iraq’s prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, said initial assessments showed no casualties, and his office ordered a joint committee with the Kurdish authorities to investigate what it called a heinous attack. Dana Gas, for its part, confirmed the suspected drone attack, the fire, the absence of injuries and the suspension of production, and said it would update the market in due course. What none of these statements contained was a name, a group or a motive, and that omission is telling: either the authorities do not yet know who was responsible, or they know and have chosen not to say. The investigation ordered from Baghdad is meant to fill that gap, but investigations of this kind in Iraq have a record of moving slowly, and the public may wait some time for an answer.
5.2 The Pattern of Blame in Past Attacks
Attacks on Khor Mor have a history, and so does the argument about who carries them out. Kurdish officials have previously blamed Iranian-backed militias for attacks on the field, a charge that reflects the wider politics of the region, where armed groups aligned with Tehran operate in Iraq and have been accused of striking Kurdish energy and political targets. That history means that any new attack on the field is immediately read through the lens of those earlier accusations, even before evidence is produced. The reporting on this week’s incident was careful to note that the attribution of responsibility remains unresolved, and that the condemnation issued by the regional ministries does not identify who launched the strike. That caution is warranted, because the launch site, the weapon and the group behind the attack are all matters for the investigation, not for assumption. At the same time, the pattern of past attacks gives the incident a context that cannot be ignored: the field has been hit repeatedly, the same kinds of weapons have been used before, and the same groups have been blamed before. Whether this attack fits that pattern is a question for the investigators, and the answer will shape not only the response to this strike but the security of the field in the months ahead.
6. The Joint Investigation Ordered From Baghdad
Within hours of the attack, Iraq’s federal government moved to take a formal role in finding out what happened. The prime minister’s office said a joint committee would be formed with the Kurdish authorities to investigate the attack, a step that puts Baghdad and Erbil on the same team for an inquiry into a strike on a field in Kurdish-administered territory. The statement from the prime minister’s office, published verbatim by the Iraqi News Agency, placed the attack at 11:10 p.m. Iraq time on Sunday, November 8, and described it as a heinous attack, language that signals the seriousness with which the federal government views a strike on energy infrastructure. The joint nature of the committee matters, because the field sits in territory administered by the Kurdistan Regional Government but its gas feeds the national grid, and because the two governments have often disagreed about who controls the region’s energy resources. A joint investigation is, in that sense, a small act of cooperation in a relationship that is often strained, and its success or failure will be watched as a test of whether the two sides can work together on security as well as on energy.
6.1 What the Joint Committee Will Examine
The committee’s first task will be to establish the basic facts of the attack: what weapon was used, where it was launched from, and how it got through whatever defences the field has. The question of the weapon is not yet settled, with Dana Gas calling it a suspected drone attack and at least one source at the scene unable to say whether the projectile was a drone or a rocket. The launch site is also uncertain, with one security source pointing to Tuz Khurmatu, a disputed district south of Kirkuk, a claim that has not been independently confirmed. Beyond those immediate questions, the investigators will need to look at the damage to the plant, the state of its security arrangements, and whether warnings were received before the strike. They will also have to consider the wider pattern, because this is not the first attack on Khor Mor, and the question of whether the field’s defences have kept pace with the threat is a legitimate one. The committee’s findings, if they are published, will shape the response: a finding that points to a specific group could lead to retaliation or to diplomatic pressure, while a finding that points to a security failure could lead to changes in how the field is protected. For now, though, the committee has only just been ordered, and its work has barely begun.
6.2 The Baghdad-Erbil Dimension
The joint investigation also has a political dimension that goes beyond the attack itself. Baghdad and Erbil have a long and often difficult history over energy, with disputes about oil revenues, budget transfers and the right to sign contracts with foreign companies running for years. Khor Mor sits at the centre of that argument in a small way, because it is a field in Kurdish-administered territory, operated by foreign companies under contracts signed with the regional government, whose gas now also feeds a federal power station in Kirkuk. The fact that both governments moved quickly to cooperate on the investigation suggests that the attack is seen in both capitals as a shared problem, not as a regional one alone. The prime minister’s order for a joint committee, and the regional government’s acceptance of it, is a sign that the two sides can still work together when the stakes are high enough. Whether that cooperation lasts beyond the investigation is another matter, and it will depend on what the inquiry finds and on how each side uses its findings. If the committee blames a group with links to Baghdad’s own political factions, the politics will become complicated quickly; if it blames an outside actor, the two governments may find it easier to present a united front. Either way, the investigation is as much a political exercise as a technical one, and its outcome will be read in both capitals.
7. A Field Attacked Before
Sunday’s attack was not the first time Khor Mor has been hit, and that history is part of why the strike matters. Production at the field has repeatedly been disrupted by attacks that Kurdish officials have blamed on Iranian-backed militias, and the site has become one of the most frequently targeted energy assets in Iraq. The most recent serious incident before this week came in November 2025, when a drone strike set a storage tank on fire and halted supplies to power plants, a close parallel to what happened on Sunday night. Earlier in 2026, in July, Dana Gas shut down the field’s main production facilities, citing credible security threats and regional tension, before restarting production later that month. That shutdown was precautionary rather than the result of an attack, but it showed how fragile the field’s operation had become, with the operator willing to stop production rather than risk its staff and its plant. The pattern is one of repeated disruption, each incident followed by repairs, restarts and assurances, and then by another incident. For the people who depend on the field’s gas, the pattern means that the power supply is never quite secure, and that every outage is a reminder of the last one.
7.1 The November 2025 Tank Fire
The closest precedent to Sunday’s attack came on November 26, 2025, when a drone strike set a storage tank on fire at Khor Mor and halted supplies to power plants. The parallels are striking: the same kind of target, the same kind of weapon, the same result, with production stopped and power generation cut across the region. The November 2025 incident was reported as a drone strike on a storage tank, and like this week’s attack it drew condemnation from the regional authorities and raised questions about the security of the field. The field was repaired and restarted after that incident, and production recovered, but the memory of the fire stayed with the staff and with the officials who depend on its output. The fact that almost exactly a year later the same kind of attack has hit the same kind of target suggests that the defences put in place after November 2025 were not enough, or that the attackers have adapted, or both. It also suggests that the field’s attackers see it as a target worth returning to, a place where a single strike can cause outsized disruption. The November 2025 fire is therefore not just history but a warning, and the question now is whether the response to this week’s attack will be different from the response to the last one.
7.2 The July Shutdown and the Restart
Between the two tank fires came a different kind of disruption. In July 2026, Dana Gas shut down the field’s main production facilities, citing credible security threats and regional tension, and production stayed offline until the company judged it safe to restart later that month. The July shutdown was a decision taken by the operator rather than forced by an attack, but it had the same effect on the power supply, with gas flows stopping and generation falling. The fact that the company was willing to halt production on the basis of a threat, rather than waiting for a strike, shows how seriously it took the risk, and how little confidence it had in the security around the field. The restart later that month was presented as a return to normal, but the normal that returned was the same fragile normal that had existed before, with the field operating in a region where the threat had not gone away. The July episode also shows that the field’s output is hostage not only to attacks but to the fear of attacks, and that the operator’s decisions are shaped by intelligence and by caution as much as by engineering. Sunday’s strike, coming only months after that precautionary shutdown, suggests that the caution was justified, and that the threat the company feared in July has now materialised in November.
8. What Comes Next
The immediate future of Khor Mor is uncertain, and the uncertainty is itself the story. Production remains suspended while the damage is being assessed, Dana Gas has given no date for a restart, and the company has not quantified the damage or put a cost on the repairs. The fire is out and the staff are safe, but the plant is silent, and every day it stays silent is a day when the Kurdistan Region’s power stations run short of fuel. The investigation ordered from Baghdad has barely begun, and the question of who launched the attack is unanswered. The regional authorities are working to minimise the impact, and backup generation is being prepared, but the gap between what the field supplied and what the backups can provide is large. What happens next will depend on three things: how bad the damage turns out to be, how quickly it can be repaired, and whether the field can be protected against another strike. None of those questions has an answer yet, and the people who depend on the field’s gas will be watching for the first signs of one.
8.1 The Restart Timetable
Dana Gas has said production remains suspended while the damage is being assessed, and that it will update the market in due course, but it has not given a timetable for restarting the field. That silence is normal in the first days after an attack, when engineers need to inspect every part of the plant before they can say what is safe to run, but it is also frustrating for the officials and the households waiting for the power to return. The restart will depend on what the assessment finds: if the damage is limited to the storage tank that was hit, repairs could be quick, but if the fire spread to pipes, compressors or control systems, the outage could last weeks. The operator’s history offers some guidance, because the field was restarted after the November 2025 tank fire and after the July 2026 shutdown, but each incident is different, and the company has not said whether this one is more or less serious than the last. The market will be watching the company’s disclosures for the first hint of a date, and the regional electricity ministry will be watching for the first sign of gas flowing again to its power stations. Until then, the timetable is a blank, and the region’s power supply will run on whatever alternatives can be found.
8.2 What to Watch Next
Several things will show whether this attack becomes a short interruption or a longer crisis. The first is the damage assessment, and whether Dana Gas reports a quick repair or a lengthy rebuild. The second is the investigation, and whether the joint committee names a group, a launch site or a motive, or whether its findings stay unpublished. The third is the power situation, and whether the blackouts ease as backup generation comes online or deepen as the outage drags on. The fourth is the security response, and whether the field’s defences are strengthened, whether new measures are announced, and whether another attack follows. The fifth is the political response, and whether Baghdad and Erbil keep cooperating on the investigation or fall back into their familiar arguments about energy and control. Each of these will unfold over days and weeks, and each will be reported as it happens, but the picture will only become clear when they are seen together. For now, the field is silent, the power is short, and the questions outnumber the answers. The coming weeks will provide the answers.
