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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
/ h' f' j: N/ f JLast Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST3 [" R+ }. M, }) t
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.4 k" Y; s2 m! N# k1 q) T% z. k1 F n
, C, B7 F9 f/ C* dThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.2 p1 F& M2 i( B2 ]5 W7 V1 ?+ W
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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.% \# g9 a1 v6 ^1 n
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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 $25-million.
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' a% w9 q" U6 d$ _& p% fSuncor 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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