 鲜花( 0)  鸡蛋( 0)
|
Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers K1 y6 i3 D* }7 |* i0 x
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST* Q+ s1 T! m: [5 F
Canwest news service
, O. S9 O6 q% F; D9 k- [) N3 I9 F- b. a6 U$ 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.3 `4 J0 T9 C% V2 r6 z5 S/ b8 d& I }
- }# l" b2 s: F' z; ~2 PThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.
# t! ?( S; G$ @. s9 y: {" X$ {. J2 |5 w
, v6 h/ l0 m7 P; ^, x4 o
1 b2 ~) o1 P0 I+ D8 {7 E6 x: N+ u$ p a& C/ L9 s
$ u- T. W t9 w* a"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.
9 S) l- j/ U0 H# h+ x' ?) Q
, T; a+ Y9 h3 d) |2 ^. t0 Y4 g) I4 f5 K. p
"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."
! B2 i0 L& @; U4 v' `& y' Y. @5 K8 ]3 z. Z$ `/ k8 \& _/ [
$ U) D( D, ~0 l: q/ [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.2 l( G, k" o6 a( o4 a& \' S0 a
7 K% a# }+ H- \. w+ t5 J5 i3 I: H
: s! |4 c3 Q/ q' J8 DSuncor 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. |
|