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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
- Z1 l# h* B6 m/ [0 ~$ D& lLast Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST9 p% f1 Z! _5 r9 B
Canwest news service
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CALGARY -- 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.
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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.( O9 @* w( [1 w; U* ~. F
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; l0 u) `3 g" {8 x6 ["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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/ H6 G/ S" l% Y: a& ~% F"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." i. q4 q7 c% Q, r& D( p# n
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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.
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5 k3 G& a5 U% `4 v7 J" ^( ~* `+ jSuncor 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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