They also feel pressure to wring returns from the billions of dollars they have invested repairing old wells and upgrading fields over the last two years, ever since high world oil prices and a currency devaluation caused profits to soar.

But mostly, the turnaround came after the Russians hired Western oil-field services companies, like Halliburton and Schlumberger, to repair wells.

The company simply changed the way it repaired wells, fixing the best first.

High prices gave non-OPEC exporters, most notably Russia, the cash to repair old wells, drill new ones, and raise overall output.

Old Suleiman, the father, was a mine of information to the village, for he travelled up and down the east coast of Malaya building and repairing wells, and so visited most villages from time to time.

Engineers repaired wells in the south today which had apparently been cut off by Gaddafi forces in Sirte.

The American military's role in Haiti has gone from ensuring security to carrying out the kind of work that brings tangible relief to the residents of the hemisphere's poorest nation - providing free medical care, repairing wells and building schools.

The military has also built many schools and repaired wells.

In addition, the Force provides civic support, including repairing wells, rehabilitating hospitals and clinics, and refurbishing roads, airports and other infrastructure.

Over a period of weeks, Mr. Zubaidi said, Mr. Saeed disclosed that he had contracts with the government's Military Industrial Organization that involved building and repairing concrete shelters and wells, which he believed were for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.

They also feel pressure to wring returns from the billions of dollars they have invested repairing old wells and upgrading fields over the last two years, ever since high world oil prices and a currency devaluation caused profits to soar.

But mostly, the turnaround came after the Russians hired Western oil-field services companies, like Halliburton and Schlumberger, to repair wells.

The company simply changed the way it repaired wells, fixing the best first.

High prices gave non-OPEC exporters, most notably Russia, the cash to repair old wells, drill new ones, and raise overall output.

Old Suleiman, the father, was a mine of information to the village, for he travelled up and down the east coast of Malaya building and repairing wells, and so visited most villages from time to time.

Engineers repaired wells in the south today which had apparently been cut off by Gaddafi forces in Sirte.

The American military's role in Haiti has gone from ensuring security to carrying out the kind of work that brings tangible relief to the residents of the hemisphere's poorest nation - providing free medical care, repairing wells and building schools.

The military has also built many schools and repaired wells.

In addition, the Force provides civic support, including repairing wells, rehabilitating hospitals and clinics, and refurbishing roads, airports and other infrastructure.

Over a period of weeks, Mr. Zubaidi said, Mr. Saeed disclosed that he had contracts with the government's Military Industrial Organization that involved building and repairing concrete shelters and wells, which he believed were for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.