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2013

• 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.