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2009

 * 2009-12-31: The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania is shut down after 22 years of service.
 * 2009-12-30: A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha product oil pipeline ruptures causing a massive oil-spill.
 * 2009-12-30: Yunnan–Guangdong HVDC, the world's first 800 kV HVDC transmission system starts operating.
 * 2009-12-28: Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin inaugurates the first stage and oil terminal of the Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean oil pipeline.
 * 2009-12-15: Construction of the second unit of the Sanmen Nuclear Power Station starts.
 * 2009-12-14: Chinese leader Hu Jintao together with the leaders of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan inaugurates the Central Asia – China gas pipeline during his visit to Turkmenistan.
 * 2009-12-09: The vice-president of Russian energy engineering and construction company Stroytransgaz, Leonid Bokhanovsky, is elected as Secretary-General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum.
 * 2009-11-26: Brazil inaugurates the Urucu–Manaus pipeline to supply cities in the state of Amazonas with natural gas.
 * 2009-11-24:The world's first osmotic power plant is opened by Statkraft in Tofte, Norway.
 * 2009-11-14: Russia and Slovenia signed an agreement to route the South Stream pipeline through Slovenia.
 * 2009-11-12: The final section of the Rockies Express Pipeline is completed.
 * 2009-11-07: The Swedish and Finnish authorities give a permit to build the controversial Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in their exclusive economic zones.
 * 2009-10-31: Construction of the Sino-Burma oil pipeline starts.
 * 2009-10-27: Hydro-Québec agrees to acquire most of NB Power assets, including the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station.
 * 2009-10-27: Qatar inaugurates one of the world largest LNG trains, operated by RasGas.
 * 2009-10-26: The blast near Mosul halts oil supplies through the Kirkuk–Ceyhan Oil Pipeline.
 * 2009-10-19: Italy, Russia and Turkey agree the participation of Russian oil companies in the Samsun–Ceyhan pipeline project.
 * 2009-10-19: The Arab Gas Pipeline starts supplying Lebanon.
 * 2009-10-15: Yemen LNG, the country's first LNG plant, starts production.
 * 2009-10-12: A Qatar Airways Airbus A340-600 conducted the world's first commercial passenger flight using a mixture of kerosene and synthetic Gas-to-Liquid fuel.
 * 2009-09-23: Gazprom buys controlling stake in the Arctic gas producer SeverEnergia.
 * 2009-09-15: Swiss-based multinational company Trafigura reaches an out of court settlement with 31,000 people affected by its 2006 dumping of toxic chemicals in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
 * 2009-09-15: PetroChina starts coalbed methane deliveries to the West–East Gas Pipeline.
 * 2009-09-11: Installation of the BritNed submarine power cable between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands starts.
 * 2009-09-08: The world's first floating wind turbine–Hywind–is inaugurated.
 * 2009-09-02: BP announces a discovery of the large Tiber oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico.
 * 2009-08-28: Reverse oil flow starts through the Trans-Panama pipeline to supply oil from the Atlantic Basin to the Pacific Rim.
 * August 21, 2009: Rosneft launches the Vankor field in Artic Siberia.
 * August 17, 2009: An accident at the Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station in Russia kills 75 and causes power shortages in Siberia.
 * August 16, 2009: The Dung Quat refinery' suspends its operations due to a "technical repair" in the residue fluid catalytic cracking unit.
 * August 10, 2009: The world's first floating, drilling, production, storage and offloading vessel Azurite DFPSO starts production at the Azurite oilfield off the Republic of Congo.
 * August 6, 2009: The world's first offshore LNG regasification terminal Adriatic LNG received its first cargo.
 * August 6, 2009: Turkey agreed for routing the South Stream pipeline through its territorial waters.
 * August 3, 2009: Enel and Électricité de France established a joint venture for studying the feasibility of building nuclear reactors in Italy.
 * August 3, 2009: Abu Dhabi National Energy Company took over operatorship of the North Sea Brent Oil Pipelines System.
 * August 1, 2009: Petro-Canada's and Suncor Energy's merger created the largest energy company in Canada.
 * July 31, 2009: Sangtuda 1 Hydroelectric Power Plant commissioned in Tajikistan.
 * July 31, 2009: Gazprom launches construction of the Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok gas pipeline.
 * July 23, 2009: Bruce Power terminated its plans to construct Bruce C and Nanticoke nuclear power stations in Ontario, Canada.
 * July 22, 2009: A construction license for the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant II was issued.
 * July 15, 2009: Sasol, Petronas, and Uzbekneftegaz agreed to establish a joint venture for developing the Uzbekistan GTL project.
 * July 13, 2009: Twelve European companies launch the $555 billion Desertec project to built solar thermal power stations in North Africa.
 * July 13, 2009: Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey sign an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline.
 * July 12, 2009: Construction of the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant II started in Russia.
 * July 11, 2009: The last 792 km long section of the Kazakhstan–China oil pipeline between Kenkiyak and Kumkol was completed.
 * July 9, 2009: The Italian legislature passed an energy bill re-introducing nuclear energy in Italy.
 * July 8, 2009: The European Commission imposes its second largest fine ever, €553 million each on energy companies GDF Suez and E.ON, due to collusion on the MEGAL pipeline
 * July 8, 2009: Russian police raided into the Sibir Energy's Moscow office and took away documents related to its two subsidiaries.
 * July 3, 2009: Energy ministers of Nigeria, Niger and Algeria sign the intergovernmental agreement on the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline.
 * July 2, 2009: Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano is elected as Director General for the International Atomic Energy Agency.
 * June 30, 2009: French official Hélène Pelosse is elected as the Interim Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency.
 * June 30, 2009: Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, oil minister of Qatar, is elected as the chairman of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum.
 * June 29, 2009: The Preparatory Commission for the International Renewable Energy Agency designates the headquarters of the organization to Abu Dhabi, Masdar City, while an innovation and technology center is located in Bonn, and an office for liaising with the United Nations and other international institutions in Vienna.
 * June 10, 2009: Construction of the Baltic Pipeline System-2 oil pipeline starts in Russia.
 * March 23, 2009: Suncor Energy announces a merger with Petro-Canada creating the largest oil company in Canada.
 * February 22, 2009: Vietnam opened its first oil refinery in Dung Quat.
 * February 18, 2009: The Sakhalin-II LNG plant was inaugurated on the Sakhalin Island, Russia.
 * February 2, 2009: The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) reported that in 2008 the world capacity of installed wind turbines grew 28.8% to reach 120.8 GW.
 * January 31, 2009: Golar Spirit became the first floating storage and regasification vessel, which regasified LNG on board.
 * January 26, 2009: The Founding Conference of the International Renewable Energy Agency was held in Bonn, Germany.
 * January 1, 2009: Gazprom cut off gas deliveries to Ukraine after failure of negotiations over gas price.