Engineers estimated last week that this plan would take between three and four months to complete the hole at 701 meters (2, 300 feet).

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He and his top engineers meet several times a week with U.S. officials, including Crear, on how to repair existing equipment, like the 100, 000-gallon-a-minute water treatment plant near Gharmat Ali, essential to restoring water injection into the Rumallah oilfields.

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This isn't the kind of project you can ask a few engineers to bang out in a week.

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