China National Offshore Oil Company Limited (CNOOC Ltd) recently announced that an oil field offshore South China Sea has come on stream successfully with a daily production of 1,500 barrels of oil.

The Hui Zhou (HZ) 19-1 field, of one well, is located in northern partof block 16/19, about 120 kilometres southeast of Hong Kong in EasternSouth China Sea.

The peak gross production capacity of the field is designed at 2,000barrels of oil per day.