Nanhai (南海) is a district of Foshanprefecture-level city, in Guangdong province, southern China. District, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. ... Foshan (Chinese: ä½å±±; Hanyu Pinyin: ) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong province, Peoples Republic of China. ... A prefecture-level city (å°çº§å¸ Pinyin: dìjà shì, literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in Chinas administrative structure. ... China, and should not be confused with the former Kwantung Leased Territory in north-eastern China. ...
The owner is CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Shell Nanhai BV (a member of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies), with a 50 percent stake, and CNOOC Petrochemicals Investment Ltd. (CPIL), also with a 50 percent stake.
We're on a fairly compressed schedule, with the Nanhai project scheduled to be ready for start-up by end of 2005, in a country where nothing like this has been done before - with a team that has never worked together before.
Once we began talking to the Nanhai complex operations and maintenance people, we realized the requirements were actually much smaller than previously defined.