ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Production has been halted at the Sarsang oil field in Duhok province following a drone attack, the Kurdistan Region’s natural resources ministry said Friday, urging Baghdad to prevent further attacks on economic infrastructure.
The Sarsang oil field, operated by the US-based HKN Energy, was targeted by two drones late Thursday, Karwan Baban, the ministry’s security advisor for oil companies, told Rudaw.
The ministry said the attack damaged the field and "caused production to be halted in it."
The Kurdistan Region has faced a series of attacks by Iran and its allied Iraqi armed groups targeting sites they claim host US forces, in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes on Iran that began on Saturday and have since escalated.
The ministry condemned the Sarsang attack, saying its aim was "to strike the economic infrastructure and resources of the people of the Kurdistan Region."
It called on the Iraqi federal government to prevent attacks targeting "civilians, economic infrastructure, and the oil and gas sector of the Kurdistan Region," placing responsibility on “parties whose areas they control [are used] to launch attacks from, harming the Region and the revenue of all of Iraq.