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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.

A Liberty Energy oilfield worker sits in the data van monitoring automated fracking operations occurring outside the window at a well site.
EnergyGrease-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.
EnergyHow 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
EnergyChevron’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.
EnergyTrump’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
PoliticsOil 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.
LawTrump’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
TechHow deals with Apple and Trump’s Pentagon turned rare earth miner MP Materials into a red-hot stock
By Jordan BlumAugust 12, 2025
President Donald Trump attends the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15.
TechAI’s endless thirst for power is driving a natural gas boom in Appalachia—and industry stocks are booming along with it
By Jordan BlumAugust 9, 2025
Embattled BP beats on earnings as it touts selling oil, not cups of coffee, as Wall Street pokes fun at its former CEO
InvestingEmbattled BP beats on earnings as it touts selling oil, not cups of coffee, as Wall Street pokes fun at its former CEO
By Jordan BlumAugust 5, 2025
Forced frenemies, Exxon and Chevron take diverging paths as leaders of the booming Permian
FinanceForced frenemies, Exxon and Chevron take diverging paths as leaders of the booming Permian
By Jordan BlumAugust 1, 2025
A manufacturing engineer prepares a battery storage submodule for lifting at Peak Energy's plant in California.
FeaturesWe’re about to see a $1 trillion ‘supercycle’ of investment in batteries to power the grid for AI
By Jordan BlumAugust 1, 2025
Lorenzo Simonelli speaks while seated during a panel at the CERAWeek conference in Houston.
FinanceBaker Hughes buys Chart Industries for $13.6 billion in oilfield services deal, outbidding and canceling planned Chart-Flowserve merger
By Jordan BlumJuly 29, 2025
‘Too far, too fast’: BP’s painful retreat from the renewables it once championed
Magazine‘Too far, too fast’: BP’s painful retreat from the renewables it once championed
By Jordan BlumJuly 29, 2025
Jim Teague, CEO of Enterprise Products Partners, speaks during the CERAWeek conference in Houston.
EconomyTrump-supporter CEO calls out administration’s ethane export ban to China: ‘These kinds of actions rarely hurt the intended target and often backfire’
By Jordan BlumJuly 28, 2025
Two Halliburton employees, clad in red coveralls, work at a pressure pumping, or fracking, operation in the Permian Basin.
EconomyHalliburton CEO: Oil and gas markets are “softer” than expected and will remain weak for all of 2025
By Jordan BlumJuly 22, 2025
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