Emirati energy company Dana Gas said no injuries were reported when a natural gas pipeline in the Kurdish north of Iraq ruptured near Kirkuk, causing outages. Dana said gas flows were halted between the Chemchemal power station and a power station in Erbil, the capital of the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government. “This resulted in the isolation of the gas pipeline and the shut-down of the Khor Mor plant for a few hours,” the company said in a statement. “No casualties or injuries have been reported.” The cause of the incident remains under investigation, though the company was clear the rupture was not the result of operational or pipeline integrity issues. There were no immediate indications the rupture and subsequent blast […]