The Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) is pur­su­ing the restart of the Guaracara re­fin­ery with a dif­fer­ent com­pa­ny than Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies and Tech­nolo­gies Ltd (PET), which the union had used in its un­suc­cess­ful 2019 bid for the re­fin­ery.

OW­TU’s chief ed­u­ca­tion/re­search of­fi­cer, Ozzie War­wick, yes­ter­day made it clear that an­oth­er com­pa­ny—Pa­tri­ot­ic En­er­gies Ser­vices (PES)—is the ve­hi­cle for the union’s lat­est pro­pos­al to­wards the restart of the re­fin­ery. Both PES and PET are owned by OW­TU.

War­wick spoke as PES of­fi­cial­ly con­firmed sign­ing a strate­gic part­ner­ship agree­ment with Tec­n­i­mont Ser­vice SpA, a sub­sidiary of the Ital­ian en­gi­neer­ing group Maire.