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• 5 November 2012: The NEL pipeline, a land-based branch of Nord Stream, becomes operational.
• 23 October 2012: Construction of the third 7,378-kilometre (4,584 mi) West–East Gas Pipeline starts in China.
• 22 October 2012: Rosneft acquires Russian third largest oil company TNK-BP.
• 27 September 2012: Norway's Crown Prince Haakon inaugurates the 317 MW Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm built off the coast of Norfolk, United Kingdom.
• 22 September 2012: The 845 megawatt Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is officially opened in Oregon.
• 20 September 2012: Inauguration of the EirGrid Interconnector, the first submarine electricity cable between Great Britain and Ireland, takes place in Meath, Ireland.
• 25 August 2012: A blast at the Paraguaná Refinery Complex in Falcón, Venezuela, kills at least 39 people and injures more than 80 others.
• 15 August 2012: After commissioning two new units, the Neurath Power Station in Germany becomes the world largest lignite-fired power station.
• 6 July 2012: Release of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2012, written by Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt, shows nuclear power accounts for 11 percent of worldwide electricity generation.
• 3 July 2012: The merger of Duke Energy and Progress Energy creates the largest energy utility in the United States.
• 28 June 2012: Following increased dominance of the world's photovoltaics market by Chinese companies, Abound Solar, a US manufacturer of cadmium telluride thin-film photovoltaic modules, files for bankruptcy protection.
• 28 June 2012: The oil major BP drops the South East Europe Pipeline proposal for transporting Azerbaijani natural gas to Europe by preferring competing Nabucco West and Trans Adriatic Pipeline projects.
• 28 June 2012: The Malaysian oil major Petronas buys Canadian gas exploration company Progress Energy Resources for C$5.5 billion.
• 26 June 2012: Azerbaijan and Turkey sign an intergovernmental agreement on the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline.
• 21 June 2012: The Habshan–Fujairah oil pipeline, allowing oil export from the Persian Gulf by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, becomes operational.
• 22 May 2012 The last unit of coal-fired Swanbank B Power Station within South East Queensland in Australia is decommissoned.
• 4 May 2012 Groundbreaking works begin on two new reactors at the Uljin Nuclear Power Plant in Korea.
• 16 April 2012: Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner submits a bill that would nationalise 51% of YPF, a subsidiary of Repsol YPF.
• 2 April 2012: Solar Trust of America, a developer of the Blythe Solar Power Project, files for bankruptcy protection.
• 30 March 2012: RWE npower and E.ON decide not to develop any more nuclear power plants in the UK, putting the UK nuclear renaissance in doubt.
• 25 March 2012: A gas leak occurs at the Elgin–Franklin fields.
• 1 March 2012: The IPCC appoints Benjamin K. Sovacool, an energy policy analyst, to its climate change mitigation Working Group.
• 29 February 2012: Oldbury Nuclear Power Station, the oldest operational nuclear power station in the world, ceases its operations.
• 22 February 2012: The 150 MW Ormonde Wind Farm in the Irish Sea becomes fully operational.
• 22 February 2012: The 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, in California's Mojave Desert, is awarded the concentrating solar power (CSP) Project of the Year Award by Solar Power Generation USA.
• 9 February 2012: The world's largest offshore wind farm, the 367 MW Walney Wind Farm is officially opened by the new UK energy secretary, Ed Davey.
• 8 February 2012: In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Nobel Laureate Kenzaburō Ōe, while speaking at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, said that the country has an "ethical responsibility" to abandon nuclear power.
• 7 February 2012: Wind power capacity now totals 238 gigawatts worldwide, an increase of 41 gigawatts in 2011, led by China.