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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers8 E# r4 @* |6 S% ~7 G* r
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST9 e4 G r" T5 ~( B3 h. }) h
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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: F8 r9 g% h& @1 VThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.6 F& O8 a4 A6 c* B
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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./ I- B7 j1 h0 c$ A0 j) i0 S
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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."9 D8 m+ [; n5 t9 `# I' w) l
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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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: J: G3 S/ a& i2 `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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