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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers7 {3 E1 }1 \5 l/ d' d+ b4 g4 q
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST" ~( ]7 i6 t: A
Canwest news service
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6 Y; E* c7 ?! l" J1 CCALGARY -- Calgary-based Suncor Energy plans to lay off another 1,000 workers this year as it continues to digest the assets of Petro-Canada picked up in a merger last fall./ C/ j9 A4 p0 v! `( {# I
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The action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.+ ^2 T( p- N& B. W/ x
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! s! P7 _% r' n8 `$ k" n"Where most of the synergies are coming from are reduction and workforce," said John Rogers, vice-president of investor relations, during a presentation to the BMO Capital Markets Unconventional Resource Conference.
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3 [/ I0 m- V) v2 X1 u"To date, we've laid off about 1,000 people. By the end of this year, 2010, we would expect we'd lay off an additional 1,000, which will bring us to a total of about 2,000 people laid off through the merger."/ N- F- Y1 y9 v0 ^- k
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Mr. Rogers also said the company is doing a "total relook" at the Fort Hills oil sands project, a Petro-Canada project which at one time was estimated to cost more than $25-million.2 X$ P. K8 `& f7 t" S, J0 c& \- m
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( k0 c: m: d: U* p3 Y. t% sSuncor recently announced the sale of a half-billion dollars worth of U.S. gas assets and expects this year to sell $2-billion to $3-billion worth of Canadian assets producing 360 million cubic feet per day of natural gas. |
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