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Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST: k/ s" X( }5 s% e1 r
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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7 k( y$ Z2 W' M+ u8 gThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.2 s+ t9 k, Y! I
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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.9 h. c6 e" W7 L+ t& X
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$ u7 {; J, p6 w. P"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.
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! d: t- [: R. v/ n# tSuncor 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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