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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
5 V' J" F$ K$ @. f+ vLast Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST5 o: }2 G% W3 B- E+ C9 M
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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5 K2 R: |7 m( X9 z5 V1 \5 |& {6 zThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.1 _5 m- z( _* N- Z' X5 L
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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.
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; Q, d! e; h, R7 B. D. i"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."( m0 H4 I; J" K+ K7 Z4 [* G
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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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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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