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1 August 2013:
Duke Energy
terminates the
engineering, procurement and construction
contracts for the planned
Levy County Nuclear Power Plant
.
4 July 2013: The
London Array
, the world's largest offshore wind farm, is inaugurated.
16 June 2013: The
Angola LNG plant
ships first gas cargo.
13 June 2013: The
Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant
project has temporary stopped due to design reconsiderations.
7 June 2013: The first unit of the
Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant
enters commercial operation.
21 May 2013:
Ernest Moniz
becomes the 13th
United States Secretary of Energy
.
3 April 2013:
BP
announces a plan to sell its United States
wind energy
unit.
30 March 2013:
Natural gas
production starts at the
Tamar gas field
off
Israel
.
29 March 2013: Fire at the
Vuhlehirska power station
in
Ukraine
destroys four power units with one employee killed and eight hospitalized.
21 March 2013: Russian oil company
Rosneft
becomes the largest publicly listed oil company in the world after completing the acquisition of
TNK-BP
.
19 March 2013: China completes the 880-km
Lanzhou–Chengdu crude oil pipeline
.
17 March 2013: 100-MW
Shams 1 solar plant
becomes operational in
Abu Dhabi
.
12 March 2013:
Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation
successfully extracts
natural gas
from frozen
methane hydrate
offshore deposit first in the world.
7 March 2013: The
Mundra Ultra Mega Power Plant
, the
Indian
first
Ultra Mega Power Project
, becomes operational.
14 January 2013: The
Gazela pipeline
in the Czech Republic becomes operational.