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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
8 c; w( J/ M6 C; P# b8 i# }Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST) A2 W y/ L; H4 [+ U
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+ i0 g$ S. f K# _( L& R$ }& CCALGARY -- 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., U6 ^3 O/ a& S' z8 S6 c4 h9 ?5 ^7 h
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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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% P5 J# O" y% G* i" O o"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.4 k: e% F$ s6 j
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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."
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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 $25-million.
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$ s- `' y; g) |- }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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