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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers0 C, u. _; o; s! E* e$ [& U) |7 M
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST9 V. \" J$ m2 c
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P% l/ W' A; l) L% r# ^9 l( `' aCALGARY -- 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.$ j+ q( F0 s. U, o+ i' @
; s2 m% `& d; W7 x0 AThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.' \: T! q4 j& I ^
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"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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"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."/ s0 w" s9 ~( v5 n1 E- |
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& F3 t4 W, N# U# Y5 Z7 hMr. 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.' A2 K& }/ {7 ~* `+ S
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Suncor 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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