Oil producers operating in the Kurdish area of Iraq rallied Thursday after Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. received its second payment from the regional government for crude exports. The Kurdistan Regional Government paid Gulf Keystone $15 million for exports of crude from the Shaikan field this month, the company said in a statement Thursday. Its shares advanced as much as 13 percent, while fellow producers in the region DNO ASA and Genel Energy Plc gained as much as 9.8 percent and 8.6 percent, respectively. “This October 2015 payment follows a similar payment in September,” Gulf Keystone said. It’s in line with pledges from the KRG to resume regularl compensation to international oil companies for exports from the region, it said. Oil producers in the semi-autonomous region are receiving the first scheduled compensation this year after getting caught in a dispute over revenue sharing between authorities in the northern Kurdish enclave […]