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Jordan Blum

Jordan Blum is Fortune’s Energy Editor. Based in Houston, Blum oversees coverage of a growing global energy sector for oil and gas, transition businesses, renewables, and critical minerals. An award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience, he has examined the ins and outs of the oil and gas shale boom for the Houston Chronicle, S&P Global, and Hart Energy. He also has worked as a congressional reporter in Washington and as a statehouse and education reporter in his native Louisiana.

Fermi Inc. cofounders Toby Neugebauer, left, and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, right, mark their Nasdaq IPO in early October for their AI power company plans.
Energy
Rick Perry’s AI power startup Fermi already has a $16 billion market cap—and zero revenue
By Jordan BlumOctober 10, 2025
A fire burns Oct. 3 at Chevron El Segundo refinery outside of Los Angeles. A big explosion late on Oct. 2 produced a large orange blaze that could be seen from miles away from the refinery.
Energy
California’s ‘impossible’ dream of ending fossil fuels isn’t working, and now it’s looking at price spikes and shortages
By Jordan BlumOctober 9, 2025
Philanthropist Warren Buffett is joined onstage by 24 other philanthropist and influential business people featured on the Forbes list of 100 Greatest Business Minds.
Energy
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway may have scored a ‘genius’ win-win in $10 billion acquisition that could mark the last big deal of his career
By Jordan BlumOctober 2, 2025
Industry leader Commonwealth Fusion Systems is building its pilot plant, SPARC, outside of Boston to come online in 2027. The facility's tokamak hall will house the doughnut-shaped, superconducting magnet system where the fusion reactions are generated.
Energy
Nuclear fusion, the ‘holy grail’ of power, was always 30 years away—now it’s a matter of when, not if, fusion comes online to power AI
By Jordan BlumOctober 2, 2025
Venture Global cofounder and CEO Mike Sabel prepares to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in January to celebrate VG's IPO.
Energy
Venture Global, America’s fastest-growing gas exporter, is facing its ‘slander’ era and it isn’t afraid of making enemies along the way
By Jordan BlumSeptember 25, 2025
Aerial view of the the Guyana Shore Base, an Exxon Mobil associate in oil discoveries, in Georgetown, Guyana on August 29, 2025.
Energy
Exxon Mobil approves $6.8B oil expansion offshore of Guyana—its first with rival Chevron as new partner
By Jordan BlumSeptember 22, 2025
View of a Citgo station in 2023 in the United States.
Energy
$10 billion Citgo auction could finally end twisting saga of Venezeulan expropriation, imprisoned execs, and a long-shot NYC mayoral candidate
By Jordan BlumSeptember 19, 2025
Employees are shown at Liberty Energy's Hive tech center near Denver where all of the frac fleet operations nationwide are monitored remotely.
Energy
Founded by Trump’s energy secretary, Liberty Energy aims to lead the AI-driven fracking future
By Jordan BlumSeptember 14, 2025
A Liberty Energy oilfield worker sits in the data van monitoring automated fracking operations occurring outside the window at a well site.
Energy
Grease-smeared ‘roughnecks’ are the classic staple of the oilfield. Now they’re vanishing in favor of AI-trained data crunchers
By Jordan BlumSeptember 13, 2025
With the shuttered Homer City coal plant in the background, at the Lucerne Reclamation project site in Pennsylvania, a worker moves coal refuse to be prepared for transport to be cleaned on June 12, 2024. The soil, contaminated by coal refuse, is cleaned and returned to the land where it is encased and covered with top soil and planted as a meadow.
Energy
How the AI data center boom is breathing new life into transforming dirty, old coal plants
By Jordan BlumAugust 31, 2025
Chevron’s president explains how the company transformed the historically boom-and-bust shale business into a steadily profitable enterprise
Energy
Chevron’s president explains how the company transformed the historically boom-and-bust shale business into a steadily profitable enterprise
By Jordan BlumAugust 24, 2025
US President Donald Trump (L), backdropped by Turbines at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, also known as the Aberdeen Bay Wind Farm, walks on the first fairway after playing off the first tee to officially open the Trump International Golf Links course in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, north east Scotland on July 29, 2025.
Energy
Trump’s 19-year war on wind power is ‘weaponizing bureaucracy to undermine American energy production,’ critics say
By Jordan BlumAugust 22, 2025
Oil and fuel prices hang in the balance as Trump and Putin meet to broker peace
Politics
Oil and fuel prices hang in the balance as Trump and Putin meet to broker peace
By Jordan BlumAugust 15, 2025
Michael Polsky, founder and chief executive officer of Invenergy, speaks during an international economic forum in Canada.
Law
Trump’s hatred of wind energy means ‘America will lose the test of its will to build,’ says company whose project was targeted by the White House
By Jordan BlumAugust 14, 2025
James Litinsky, Chairman and CEO, MP Materials
Tech
How deals with Apple and Trump’s Pentagon turned rare earth miner MP Materials into a red-hot stock
By Jordan BlumAugust 12, 2025
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