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Sollid said at that time that an assessment for the Canadian business unit revamp had been in process for months. The unit oversees projects including a liquefied natural gas export terminal, oil and gas fields, offshore drilling and oilsands.

A presentation on the Chevron Canada website updated near the end of 2015 shows the company then had a total of 600 staff in offices and in the field in Canada.

It says net daily production in 2014 from Canadian operations was 24,000 barrels of crude oil, 10 million cubic feet of natural gas and 43,000 barrels of synthetic oil from its 20 per cent share in the Shell-led Athabasca Oil Sands Project.

This week, new reports about layoffs at Chevron were posted anonymously on the online bulletin board Reddit by people who claim to work there.

Posters differed on the depth of cuts. One said he had been told about 30 per cent or 125 employees and about 70 per cent or 125 contractors were being let go and another said it was 20 per cent of employees and 40 per cent of contractors.

Almost every large Calgary oil and gas or oilfield services company has cut staff — the notable exceptions who claim not to have let people go are Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. and Imperial Oil Ltd.

In October, San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corp. announced it would reduce by up to 7,000 jobs, or 11 per cent of its workforce, to deal with low oil prices.

Last month, the company reportedits first money-losing quarter since 2002 in the final three months of 2015, recording a net loss of US$588 million.

It has sold US$11-billion worth of facilities such as pipelines over the past two years and hopes to raise up to US$10 billion more with sales through 2017. It cut fourth-quarter spending by about US$9 billion compared with a year earlier and has vowed to finish projects under construction but not start any new long-term projects.

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