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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
7 W3 ~0 z( H- J4 cLast Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST3 g; ^: r- D% P, Q, j7 q8 O) m* `
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.! i/ T1 O1 K1 G* e9 y
# @6 @5 @% [0 T+ wThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.% x3 S0 J% b9 Y( a$ |1 ], R+ S
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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."9 Q# t8 }6 E+ L; Y) z* g
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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 $25-million.' I9 \2 K. k, w# c9 K: M$ o. }* ^
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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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