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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
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. D$ B- v4 a* Z; `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.; H0 ~. O+ k3 S+ G
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The action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.6 R: s3 u: L- ]. w6 U7 \: w
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9 U8 M: k) S* M8 {6 V7 N"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.. V0 P9 |* [: T5 {+ b
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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."0 ^% ?" s/ `; u' e
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' r4 y9 _$ Y! `7 P- F: j ?& BMr. 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.) d# n1 }9 k: f9 r- J
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% K x; W# z0 R" K( O& w' |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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