Can someone please tell what happened when imperial announced layoffs first and then gave the operator ship of syncrude to suncor. what happened with the remaining employees?
which departments and employees got absorbed by suncor?
#wanted to know as same thing is going to happen to Kearl.
Having been an employee at both Suncor and Imperial, I honestly think Kearl being divested to Suncor is probably the best case scenario for the Kearl employees. Kearl is already so lean that if Suncor bought it, they would hire more, bring mining knowledge, and waste less Kearl employee time (no more explaining mining to Exxon lol). Worst case scenario is Exxon holds and continues to milk.
@ea Don't recall the department wise head count reduction, it varied.
Syncrude was and is a fort Mc based company. If you guys are trying to gauge whether same thing will happen to kearl and forced move to Edmonton, it's not a direct comparison.
@bk which departments stayed do you know?
And after that I think Suncor sent people to fort mcmurray right?
Why does everyone keep saying kearl will be divested? Why did Exxon spend so much to only sell it?
Syncrude here, lurking for my curiosity. Imperial / Exxon didn't so much give the operator-ship to Suncor as Suncor basically overtook the majority shares of Syncrude joint venture, let the management of service agreement expire, and kick them away. To be clear, Syncrude was always the operator of itself, just since c. 2006 it was given Exxon's services like GRS, OIMS, etc.
Suncor handled the transition like a merger of two assets, and the first thing they did was slap an "operated by Suncor" right at the entrance gate. All new drawings (Rev. 0) had to be on Suncor letter head format. Employees were given suncor . Com addresses.
Redundant positions were eliminated, lay offs happened, surprise surprise, mostly within Syncrude.
One thing Syncrude had was a history of stability - unless you fked up in safety, or were in gross violation of your employment terms, there were no layoffs. Not so much anymore.
Best thing that happened was EMIT was kicked out.
And Suncor might have its issues but based on what I hear from you guys at Imperial - it's an angel.