ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Gas production has been suspended at Sulaimani province’s Khor Mor field, the operator announced Thursday, due to what it described as “credible security threats.”

"Due to the existence of a credible threat to security and the escalation of the situation in the region, all main production facilities at Khor Mor have been suspended,” The UAE-based Dana Gas company said on Thursday.

Dana Gas added that it is continuing to monitor the situation in coordination with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Iraqi authorities.

Khor Mor serves as the main supplier of electricity in the Kurdistan Region.

Shortly after the Dana Gas statement, the Kurdistan Region’s electricity ministry announced that the shutdown of operations at Khor Mor, which the ministry also attributed to “security concerns,” has reduced power-generation capacity by 2,500 megawatts.

“All concerned parties are working to resume gas exports to the power generation stations,” the ministry said, noting that the “situation is temporary.”

As tensions reignite between the US and Iran, Iranian attacks on regional countries have resumed.

The Kurdistan Region’s capital Erbil was targeted by at least eight bomb-laden drones late Wednesday, all of which were intercepted.

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi on Thursday strongly condemned what he described as the “malicious” attack on Erbil and vowed to “exert every effort,” in coordination with the KRG to prevent similar incidents from recurring.

During the early months of the US-Israeli war on Iran, gas production at Khor Mor gas field was repeatedly disrupted after the field's operators evacuated personnel in response to near-daily attacks by Iran-backed Iraqi militia groups targeting the Kurdistan Region and more specifically, its energy infrastructure.

The Kurdistan Region, despite maintaining a neutral stance, has come under hundreds of drone and missile attacks targeting civilian infrastructure, energy facilities, and Peshmerga forces.

In November, an attack on the Khor Mor field shut down production and slashed the Kurdistan Region’s electricity production by 80 percent for several days. The strike also disrupted power delivery to the provinces of Nineveh, Kirkuk, and Salahaddin.

The Khor Mor field is the main producer of the Kurdistan Region’s electricity, with natural gas reserves of around 1.8 trillion cubic feet. It is operated by the UAE-based Dana Gas, which, alongside affiliate Crescent Petroleum, agreed to a deal with the KRG in 2007 to develop the Region’s gas capacities.