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Located in China’s Guangdong Province, the Shell Petrochemicals Company Limited (CSPCL) Nanhai Petrochemicals Complex, known as “Nanhai”, is a Sino-foreign joint venture project. The joint venture was established in October 2000 by Shell Nanhai BV, a Shell company, with a 50% stake, and the China National Offshore Oil Company CNOOC Petrochemicals Investment Company Limited, also with a 50% stake. Operation at Nanhai started in 2006, initially supplying 2.7 million tonnes of ethylene and propylene derivative products per annum to the Chinese market to be used in a wide range of industrial and consumer products, including household appliances, cars, furniture and computers.