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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers/ u. T6 \" R, z+ `+ y0 H
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST
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9 K1 F2 m8 Q# s& }( j6 A& [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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The action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.
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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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4 o7 O/ n8 F8 r! l7 i5 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."# ]: x8 G4 A$ K; N3 ?& t; ?9 K
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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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1 i/ e: ]% l% P) s! e! w" \! |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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