DNO and ShaMaran Report Lower Q1 2026 Output in Kurdistan

Norway’s DNO and Canada’s ShaMaran Petroleum reported lower oil production from fields in kurdistan in the first quarter of 2026, reversing gains made early this year. The companies linked the decline to the Mideast war, which wiped out some of the earlier improvement.

DNO and ShaMaran Petroleum

DNO said its fields in Iraqi Kurdistan produced less oil in the first quarter of 2026, and ShaMaran Petroleum reported the same pattern from its fields in the same region. The combined drop is the clearest change in the period the companies reported: early-year gains gave way to lower output by the end of the quarter.

For both companies, the affected assets are in Iraqi Kurdistan, keeping the production shift tied to one operating area rather than to a broader corporate-wide change. That makes the first-quarter figures the most direct measure of how the war has filtered into output from their fields.

Iraqi Kurdistan output

The production decline sits inside a short timeline. Early in 2026, gains were made. In the first quarter of 2026, DNO and ShaMaran Petroleum reported lower oil production from their fields in Iraqi Kurdistan. The sequence shows that the improvement did not hold through the quarter.

The friction for both companies is straightforward: the same region that delivered early gains also produced the quarter’s decline. Readers tracking these producers now have one concrete marker to watch — whether the lower output is an isolated first-quarter result or the start of a longer run of weaker production in Iraqi Kurdistan.

For now, the latest reported number is the quarter itself: first quarter of 2026. That is the point at which the gains were wiped back, and it is the benchmark against which the next production update will be read.