 鲜花( 0)  鸡蛋( 0)
|
Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers% L. K+ T# ]3 K* e$ z# r
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST
$ E9 @" Q) o1 S, Y& zCanwest news service+ ?. Z: n8 B: F! |( Y
2 |( D$ G; Z9 I8 ?# `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.
* ~3 X( {; a. s" b* a+ u9 m' v+ } E- W
The action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.% D y2 i2 p: {) z$ m
( Y8 h- [% J: @$ W2 X; R9 p
2 g2 D2 d9 f% F( B; _' x$ W/ R% p U* l4 c0 g2 e# i
# q) k' q1 c; i) p7 `0 }* z1 w2 t- w& S e6 ?: U2 b* `
"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. s6 I- E8 |+ s& T1 c9 ^9 H
& p, T; E9 u! X: f- M
2 c" i* m' p3 E9 m9 x
"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."2 k$ P# Z8 w% F% w% O3 Q
% C) U; V K; Q; B1 i- z
: Y1 N9 C7 c$ s. R1 u0 yMr. 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.) \, I" e3 z7 y8 ^+ B/ S* \, D
3 _% Z' q: K7 S7 f
! A4 ]5 M3 ^6 v8 ^" fSuncor 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. |
|