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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers8 C k' U' I7 |: V, s; |9 T
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST/ T8 E# m( L, e& }3 ]
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# c z$ I. t0 C gCALGARY -- 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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5 ` r6 g% W+ g, U9 s"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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. U, \- y2 m! n) C"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."- x( C a% ]& u; G4 r0 ?3 M7 s, f
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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 $25-million.
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7 ?4 R7 i3 ~7 `$ I3 U$ {5 nSuncor 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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