Prime Minister Alberta Daniel Smith says Dismiss about 20 percent of its labor force By 2027, he was “very disappointed”, blames Ottawa and increasing the need to build pipelines.
“The industry over the past 10 years has been difficult and difficult to decisions of the federal government,” Smith told Smith on Tuesday.
“If we can realize the desire to build our pipelines to the north, south, east and west, double our production, then people have many opportunities to be able to use in this sector.”
The imperial from Kalgary said on Monday that the reductions are part of a wider restructuring plan and save the company about $ 150 million a year.
Approximately 900 jobs, most of which are in the Calgari will be lost.
Imperial Oil states that by the end of 2027 it will eliminate 20 percent of its labor. This will mean that approximately 900 jobs, most of which are in the Calgari will be lost.
“This is what happens when you have uncertainty,” Smith said. “And this is one of the reasons why we must work very quickly to get to the resolution with Ottawa, so that we can start building [pipelines] again.”
The chairman of the Imperial Oil John Whelan stated in his statement that restructuring and dismissal will provide the company to continue to deliver profitability and cost for shareholders.
“We recognize a significant influence that restructuring will have on our employees and their families,” Wylan said. “We are deeply committed to the support of our employees through this transition.”
In the press release, Imperial said that she uses technologies and her relationship with the main shareholder of Exxon Mobile to continue to achieve or exceed the target indicators of production.
The company also stated that part of the restructuring will see that the imperial will transfer most of the remaining Kalgary positions to the Stratkon oil refinery in Edmonton at the end of 2028.
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We hear more about imperial oil based on Kalgary, excluding 20 percent of our labor by the end of 2027.
While Smith points to a finger on Ottava, the leader of Alberta NDP Nahid Nenshi has guilty of the UCP government.
“We have a government that indulges in separatists that scare away internal and foreign investments,” he said to CBC News.
“Now we have a second … The highest level of unemployment after Newfoundland in the country at a time when the energy sector is actually not under threat of tariffs,” Nenshi said.
“What we really see here is a change and change in work, and Albert remains outside, and this is directly due to Daniel Smith and UCP policy, I suppose.”
The Minister of Energy of Canada, Tim Khojson, also said that he was “deeply disappointed” with the planned reduction in Imperial Oil jobs.
He said that it was working to understand what has entered into the decision of the company, and the government will study ways to support workers who have lost their jobs.
“These are qualified, devoted people who have made a great contribution to Alberta’s energy sector and Canada’s economy, and my thoughts with them and their families when they receive these complex news,” he said on Tuesday on social networks.
In August, Imperial announced the total income and other income in the amount of $ 11.23 billion, and compared to $ 13.38 billion for the same quarter a year earlier.
Hodgson said that his mission is to make sure that energy companies, such as Imperial, remain prosperous because the government is working to make Canada “energy superpower”.
The oil company dismisses a global trend: experts
On Tuesday, Top US Oil Major Exxon Mobile announced wider reductions when plans to dismiss 2000 workers around the world – about half of which are taken into account in imperial oil dismissals.
Heather Exner-Pirot, Director of Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment at the McDonald Lavrier Institute in Ottava, says that this last announcement is part of the global trend.
“This, obviously, is extremely painful for Kalgary and extremely painful for Canada, but this is part of a much wider … series of dismissal,” she said.
Several large energy companies, including Chevron and Conocophillips, announced thousands of reduction in jobs last year to curb expenses, while they are fighting with a lower profit in the face of a world decline in raw oil prices and strong competition from the OPEC+oil manufacturers.
Another company from Kalgary, Cenovus Energy Inc., confirmed the dismissal in May, while Suncor Energy Inc. reduce about 1,500 employees In an optimizing push in 2023.
“What Exxon and Imperial are doing is to try to be the lowest cost of the barrel in oil meetings, as well as competitive throughout the world, and therefore they are not closed in production. They are not going to produce less oil, ”explained exner's pitch, calling the dismissal“ normal restructuring ”from the point of view of the corporation.
“This means that the fees continue to enter. This means that the sector is healthy. This means that the imperial remains healthy. “
Charles Saint-Arno, the chief economist of Alberta Central, says that the oil and gas industry is no longer what it was in 2014, Pre-Boom, and therefore the number of people engaged in this sector were also affected.
“The Canadian sector of oil and gas does not live in [a] Vacuum … without the influence of what is happening all over the world. Not only in Canada investments in the industry are weak. We see this all over the world, ”he said.
“The name of the game over the past decade has been how to get the effectiveness from current operations, and this is what we saw. [Companies have] To reduce costs, and these losses of work go to this vein.
“This is really such a desire for effectiveness that reduces the number of goals. How can you extract the same trunk at a lower price? “
ST-ARNAUD says that it is necessary to start looking at the oil and gas sector with “other thinking”, realizing that now this is a mature industry.
“This is no longer what I would call at the startup stage in the late 2000s, in the early 2010s where companies built mass operations, thinking of huge amounts of money, and they were not necessarily due to how much it would cost,” he said.
“But now [in the] The mature stage, you need to start thinking about the cost. How do you improve your profitability when you are on such a mature phase of your development? And it is here that I see that the Canadian oil industry at the moment. ”
