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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
0 l9 `2 L( F7 {Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST
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7 c, s/ b! k' u! @7 E. ICALGARY -- 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.1 O) X5 w- O" ^. M. F& {7 t) k7 u
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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./ ~3 @1 C N* N9 f$ K/ U
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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." @/ F' `9 |# J0 z# o5 p
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+ j2 p# T. t9 u( i4 u5 _, EMr. 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.# e) a3 ^* e+ t
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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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