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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers$ y9 U r7 N6 r5 l7 a
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST) t& S9 r; L- q m. V
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: O# C' E y$ k9 G4 b8 Z" qCALGARY -- 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.! {/ F( D. Y' R) T0 l! p
8 x7 c, j$ s2 t% g) _( |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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"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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"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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& ?, c5 t3 l3 ]+ k6 m2 e4 qMr. 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 $25-million.- V" a- `) C$ E6 _
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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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