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Suncor to lay off another 1,000 workers
5 i7 Y7 T, @& \8 c# R7 NLast Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 | 06:03 PM EST
( y% _9 y2 c3 s, _! uCanwest news service
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2 B' O- j$ @ E1 \+ XCALGARY -- 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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7 v1 ~4 ^5 _% qThe action, announced at an investor's conference in New York this afternoon, will double the staff reductions to 2,000.9 H' o$ Z5 G }
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7 S$ [: n4 |: k"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.": r! a9 W) R$ p4 d) F
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2 a0 B; n ~5 d# KMr. 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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