This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-05-28 07:37
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
An item from May 28, 1996, in China Daily showed the Liuhua 11-1 Oilfield, located under 300 meters of seawater, starting operations in the South China Sea 190 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong.
It was the first deep water field in the South China Sea originally developed by a joint venture of three companies - China National Offshore Oil Corp, US Amoco Orient Petroleum Co and Kerr-McGee Liuhua Ltd.
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