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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.

Forgent Power Solutions is building its "e-houses" to contain its electrical equipment at its expanded Minnesota manufacturing hub.
Energy
Forgent’s IPO is ‘bringing sexy back’ to the electrical equipment helping power the AI boom, CEO says
By Jordan BlumFebruary 14, 2026
Sam Altman’s fusion startup Helion Energy hits 150 million degree plasma temperature—a milestone that could bring first grid power in 2028
Energy
Sam Altman’s fusion startup Helion Energy hits 150 million degree plasma temperature—a milestone that could bring first grid power in 2028
By Jordan BlumFebruary 13, 2026
The CEO of coal producer Peabody Energy, Jim Grech, left, hands a trophy to U.S. President Donald Trump during an event on the use of coal in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. The lobbyist group, the Washington Coal Club, awarded Trump the inaugural "Undisputed Champion of Coal" award. Trump also is signing an executive order directing the Defense Department to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Energy
The Trump administration calls its climate change policy shift the ‘largest deregulatory action’ in history—but experts say the impact will be limited
By Jordan BlumFebruary 12, 2026
A member of the Kurdish security forces guards an oil refinery on the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq, in June 2014.
Energy
Big Oil embraces global exploration again as Chevron returns to Libya
By Jordan BlumFebruary 11, 2026
A Very Large Crude Carrier from Greece unloads in China in 2020.
Energy
The Trump administration is touting approvals for oil-exporting hubs in the Gulf of Mexico—but no one seems to want to build them
By Jordan BlumFebruary 10, 2026
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, left, listens to Jacob DeWitte, CEO of Oklo, speak as US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 23, 2025.
Energy
Next-gen nuclear’s tipping point: Meta and hyperscalers start deals with Bill Gates’ TerraPower, Sam Altman-backed Oklo, and more
By Jordan BlumFebruary 7, 2026
An aerial view of America’s only rare earths mine
Energy
New ‘Project Vault’ critical minerals stockpile is ‘first step of many’ needed for U.S. to break China’s supply-chain chokehold
By Jordan BlumFebruary 3, 2026
Devon Energy CEO: $26 billion Coterra merger marries two “crown jewels” as merger mania returns to the oilfield
Energy
Devon Energy CEO: $26 billion Coterra merger marries two “crown jewels” as merger mania returns to the oilfield
By Jordan BlumFebruary 2, 2026
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods, far right, listens as U.S. President Donald Trump,left, speaks during a meeting with oil company executives in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 9. President Trump is aiming to convince oil executives to support his plans in Venezuela, a country whose energy resources he says he expects to control for years to come. US forces seized Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in a sweeping military operation on January 3, with Trump making no secret that control of Venezuela's oil was at the heart of his actions.
Energy
Exxon and Chevron decline new spending in Venezuela while taking a wait-and-see approach for the years ahead
By Jordan BlumJanuary 30, 2026
A Microsoft data center under construction in Aldie, Virginia, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025.
Energy
‘The new politics of electricity’: Utilities seek $31 billion in hikes as voters revolt over soaring bills
By Jordan BlumJanuary 29, 2026
United States Secretary of Commerce Howard William Lutnick answers questions at the end of an EU Trade Ministers meeting in the Europa building the EU Council headquarters.
Energy
Trump administration buys stake in USA Rare Earth as wave of government deals in critical minerals continues
By Jordan BlumJanuary 26, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One on January 11, 2026. Trump said Sunday his administration was working well with Venezuela's interim leader Delcy Rodriguez and that he would be open to meeting with her.
Energy
American oil company CEOs feel increasingly ‘slighted’ by Trump’s focus on Venezuela: ‘That’s bad for U.S. producers’
By Jordan BlumJanuary 23, 2026
A drill is prepped to test ore deposits for rare earths at Critical Metals' planned Tanbreez mining site in southern Greenland.
Energy
Greenland rare earths mining company stock spikes nearly 150% on Trump ‘trepidation’
By Jordan BlumJanuary 21, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press, saying he's talking to NATO about Greenland, before he departs the White House en route Palm Beach, Florida on January 16, 2026, in Washington DC, United States.
Politics
The weak business case for Trump acquiring Greenland: a $1 trillion price tag and few returns for two decades
By Jordan BlumJanuary 17, 2026
The oil CEO who stood up to Trump is a follower of the disciplined ‘Exxon way’ and has a history of blunt statements
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The oil CEO who stood up to Trump is a follower of the disciplined ‘Exxon way’ and has a history of blunt statements
By Jordan BlumJanuary 13, 2026
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