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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
* s5 f7 h5 i- W- `Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST
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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.! m. ]4 o( S) V% {. E: |
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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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, S, P \8 Z* F" ]# T1 u3 B"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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) D( _- r" V8 [) ^9 z"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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6 z( k3 f* u7 v" _5 m; j NMr. 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.% w2 i; s2 e4 p- v5 J
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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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