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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers7 \: v+ V) p% b, v* ?! r
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST' z" O7 r$ K( G1 q" w C
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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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' J5 _& |# S4 j) WThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.' U7 d* f: |5 R# I: t& j- Z
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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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8 J: @* S; D, w$ d1 \1 T h4 r& P1 p5 W"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."$ y2 Y; z/ y- d( V1 I
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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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9 v8 f, _! W5 s; jSuncor 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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