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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
! [7 J0 v4 j7 r$ ELast Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST
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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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8 }0 b! O4 o/ d1 a. r# U$ c) tThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.
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' Z. _& F- U z, L- S0 E"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.9 A& b7 [5 Y) s2 R; _+ s: M
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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.": `% Q9 _3 S- g5 E9 _+ Q
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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 $25-million.3 q" V" q" u! o1 @/ G+ Z
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! o$ n+ d9 o) ] ]8 s, zSuncor 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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