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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
$ O6 `3 t5 ^! w( b9 p- v: U! v' sLast Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST3 T. Y* V9 ^( ?6 P V& o$ a
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.3 ]0 c2 I3 ?1 c% b
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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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5 {$ Q1 Z- L. e( m$ Q9 A9 w, 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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8 O" ~: F; T; P% x1 H7 A"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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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.) u) R7 Z" R, c: q6 E* _
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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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