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Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST2 D, A' M7 m Z! I% x( c
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.
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+ U3 o$ C6 L3 y/ T2 ~- SThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.( K: T" }! `% K$ m6 `" G8 `
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0 V2 A& S- G9 E9 Z; m+ ~"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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"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."
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& V) r% s% u, X# H5 n: v+ ]# A3 C* zMr. 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.' [4 F3 D5 {( \8 s- C
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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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