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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.

Woodside Energy CEO Meg O'Neill speaks while seated on the sidelines of an energy conference.
EnergyEmbattled BP replaces CEO, naming Woodside Energy chief as first-ever woman leader of a Big Oil giant
By Jordan BlumDecember 17, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion with top business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the roundtable, Trump addressed questions on the Federal Reserve’s latest decision to cut interest rates and reports that the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, among other topics.
EnergyA U.S. oil blockade on Venezuela could ‘devastate’ its economy and further pressure Maduro. But how far is Trump willing to take it?
By Jordan BlumDecember 17, 2025
Gasoline delivery truck driver Robert Clark prepares to fill the underground gas tanks at a Shell station in Glendale California. Fuel prices in December 2025 are the lowest since the pandemic in early 2021.
EnergyPrices at the gas pump are the lowest since the pandemic and still falling—just in time for record-high holiday travel
By Jordan BlumDecember 17, 2025
CARACAS, VENEZUELA - A member of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces holds an "Igla-S" rocket launcher during a military ceremony commemorating the 200th anniversary of the presentation of the 'Sword of Peru' to Venezuelan independence hero Simón Bolívar on November 25, 2025, in Caracas, Venezuela. The United States recently designated the "Cartel De Los Soles" (Cartel of The Suns) as a foreign terrorist organization, a group allegedly led by the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and which, it is presumed, includes high-ranking members of the Venezuelan government.
EnergyEverything the Trump administration is doing in Venezuela involves oil and regime change—even if the White House won’t admit it
By Jordan BlumDecember 14, 2025
Exelon CEO: The ‘warning lights are on’ for U.S. electric grid resilience and utility prices amid AI demand surge
ConferencesExelon CEO: The ‘warning lights are on’ for U.S. electric grid resilience and utility prices amid AI demand surge
By Jordan BlumDecember 9, 2025
A drill pad is positioned at Critical Metals' Tanbreez Project in Greenland during a drilling campaign.
EnergyIn race to end China’s chokehold on critical minerals, the U.S. needs all the friends it can get
By Jordan BlumDecember 9, 2025
Four years ago, BKV started buying up the two Temple power plants in Texas—located between Austin and Dallas—which now total 1.5 gigawatts of electricity generation capacity—enough to power more than 1.1 million homes, or a major data center campus. There is room to expand.
EnergyHow a Texas gas producer plans to exploit the ‘megatrend’ of power plants for AI hyperscalers
By Jordan BlumDecember 5, 2025
Tesla cofounder leads U.S. ‘urban mines’ to compete with China in battery recycling and critical minerals
InnovationTesla cofounder leads U.S. ‘urban mines’ to compete with China in battery recycling and critical minerals
By Jordan BlumNovember 27, 2025
Mining equipment sits inside the pit at the Mountain Pass mine, operated by MP Materials, in Mountain Pass, California, U.S. America's top rare earths producer, MP Materials, is expanding its vertical integration of mining and magnets production in the U.S. after years of shipping its output to China because there was no refining capacity available to handle its production. Photographer: Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images
MagazineThe U.S. aims to breathe easy amid China’s chokehold on rare earths, but loosening the grip takes years of concerted effort
By Jordan BlumNovember 17, 2025
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and President Trump speak and laugh while seated during a dinner with tech leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025.
EnergyYour electric bill has replaced the price at the pump as the hot-button, political bellwether
By Jordan BlumNovember 14, 2025
Shale oil
EnergySM Energy is acquiring Civitas in $13 billion oil and gas merger of near equals in the Permian Basin
By Jordan BlumNovember 3, 2025
Exxon and Chevron hike oil production despite global glut and see more ‘frontier exploration’ as U.S. shale boom slows
EnergyExxon and Chevron hike oil production despite global glut and see more ‘frontier exploration’ as U.S. shale boom slows
By Jordan BlumOctober 31, 2025
Jose La Loggia, EMEA group president for the HVAC giant Trane Technologies, speaks at the Fortune Global Forum in Riyadh about the transition for cleaner and more affordable energy. He spoke on a panel with Lucid Motors Middle East President Faisal Sultan, left, and Gemini Corp. CEO Kunaal Patawari, right.
ConferencesFrom ‘greenwashing’ to ‘greenhushing,’ clean energy momentum advances despite political roadblocks
By Jordan BlumOctober 30, 2025
Three panelists at the Fortune Global Forum
ConferencesSaudi power chair: Tariffs weaken the global energy transition and hurt humanity
By Jordan BlumOctober 28, 2025
Zach Dell is the co-founder and CEO of Base Power.
EnergyMichael Dell’s son aims to transform the home power business by selling electricity and backup battery power like a Costco membership
By Jordan BlumOctober 28, 2025
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