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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
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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.- b4 j8 M3 a/ @5 P7 p# i& R
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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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' K* o7 \" s2 a# o, F& i% n5 c" j"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., m( v8 k- ]4 ?; v" h
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$ C: D7 i1 `0 T. m6 M$ c"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.# L7 H' G* u9 D& D# F9 l, q
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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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