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The Curious Case of the Nansha Refinery

March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and Sinopec proposed in 2005 to build a petrochemical refinery in Guangzhou.1  The facility will process “15 million tones of oil a year and produce 800,000 tonnes of ethylene.” 2  The Nansha District, an island at the mouth of the Pearl River, was selected as the location for the facility.  The [...]

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