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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers* l8 n0 Z+ O. f
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST4 x$ B1 n: |% L$ T
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.4 x# ^* n6 y# G6 _7 N) ^
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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.* z% N$ d6 S9 p1 @9 P0 [/ `) Q1 \
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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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$ n+ @& V: A) r* a. a& }( X"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."! T& {. @: D+ R, D+ P
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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." i" f6 B1 C7 G8 I& e" J
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* B9 \7 [. }! l* s) hSuncor 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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