Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Friday that oil production at an oil field operated by US firm HKN Energy has been halted following an attack.A security source told AFP the attack was carried out with two drones the previous day.
The natural resources ministry in the northern Kurdistan region said in a statement "yesterday, an outlaw group in Iraq launched a terrorist attack on the HKN oil field in the Sarsang area" in Dohuk province, damaging the field and "halting production".
The autonomous Kurdistan region has been pulled into the war engulfing the Middle East, suffering mostly from drone attacks on US bases and interests there.
Several Iran-backed armed groups -- known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq -- claim daily drone attacks on US bases.
Drones have repeatedly been intercepted over Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, which hosts US-led coalition troops and a major US consulate complex.
On Tuesday, a source at an oil company in Kurdistan told AFP that most foreign oil companies had temporarily halted production as a precautionary measure.
