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Ke­jan Haynes

An Ital­ian en­gi­neer­ing group says it has se­cured a US$50 mil­lion con­tract to con­duct a re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion study on Petrotrin’s re­fin­ery in Pointe-à-Pierre. How­ev­er, Gov­ern­ment is dis­tanc­ing it­self from the arrange­ment.

In a state­ment on its web­site, MAIRE an­nounced that its sub­sidiary, Tec­n­i­mont Ser­vices, had been award­ed the con­tract for an as­sess­ment of the re­fin­ery, de­scrib­ing it as a ma­jor project to as­sess and pre­pare the fa­cil­i­ty for po­ten­tial restart. The com­pa­ny said the project fur­ther strength­ens its ge­o­graph­ic di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion by ex­pand­ing its pres­ence in Cen­tral Amer­i­ca.