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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
# P% C }8 A6 s5 kLast Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST/ s/ r4 P& Q% X& p
Canwest news service
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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.; H# S: {5 Z+ \! I
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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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- W9 u0 x* W, q" J: u# t9 N"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./ d4 j0 ~5 \3 c$ ~& n$ I
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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.") X: r) _$ Y/ s( d; @ ?0 S
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/ R! P2 J) y& d5 ~1 f: K+ ]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.1 G1 V2 E0 ^# Z
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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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