Major players DNO International and Genel Energy are now reported to be calling for greater stability of the payments regime as a condition for further investment in the Iraqi autonomous region.

The pair this week finally received payments of $116 million for DNO and $132 million for Genel for past production from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which was handed a long overdue payment of 650 billion Iraqi dinar ($559 million) by the federal regime back in October.

However,