CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Co.(CSPC), a 50-50 joint venture of China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) and Shell, signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement for the third phase of its ethylene project in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China. The expansion will include a 1.5-million-t/y ethylene plant, as well as 14 units for the production of products such as propylene, butadiene, ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol, styrene monomer, propylene oxide, linear alpha olefins, and metallocene polyethylene, and others, at the Nanhai petrochemicals complex. CSPC (Nanhai Petrochemical Project) is the "largest" operating single ethylene production plant in China with a total current ethylene production capacity of 2.2-million t/y, said CSPC. The first two phases, which started up in 2006 and 2018, respectively, supply over 6-million t/y of "high-quality" and diversified products to the market.
