(17 Jul 2025)
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Sarsang, Dohuk, Iraq – 17 July 2025
1. Various of burning oil storage tanks
2. Kurdish region and U.S.-based HKN Energy Ltd company flags at oil field
3. Mid of oil storage tanks, smoke rising
4. Wide of oil field site
5. Various of bullet cases on ground
6. Smokes rising from storage tanks
7. Oil pipes
8. Various of oil facilities and smoke rising from damage
9. Various of road and entrance to oil field
9. Wide of oil facility
STORYLINE:
Smoke continued to rise from an oil field in Iraq’s Dohuk province on Thursday after it was struck by a drone earlier in the week.
The attack on Tuesday was one of several recently launched against oil facilities in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
It came the same day that the Iraqi government signed an agreement with the operator of the field, U.S.-based HKN Energy Ltd., to invest in a field at another location.
On Wednesday officials said two drones attacked an oil field in the district of Zakho, causing damage but no injuries.
Hours later, the anti-terrorism department said the Baadre oil field, located in the Sheikhan district of Dohuk province, was targeted by a drone strike.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which have exacerbated tensions between the central government in Baghdad and Kurdish authorities.
HKN Energy Ltd. said in a statement that an explosion had occurred Tuesday morning at one of its production facilities in the Sarang field in Dohuk province.
The Kurdish region’s Ministry of Natural Resources said the explosion was caused by a drone strike and that it came after a similar attack Monday on the Khurmala oil field in Irbil province.
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