Chris Helman

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Christopher Helman |Chris Helman

Occidental Petroleum’s conventional oilfields in the Permian basin of west Texas have been producing for decades. And although output has slowed, there remains 2 billion barrels of oil still trapped thousands of feet below the surface. Engineers have figured out several methods over the years to scour out stubborn oil from nooks and crannies in the reservoir rock (think of a sponge but with much tighter pore spaces).

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Christopher Helman |Chris Helman

Outside of China, the most influential investor in the world of rare earth elements has to be Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest woman. Rare earths may be just a small part of her $30 billion mining fortune, but Rinehart, through family holding company Hancock Prospecting, has acquired big stakes in leading non-Chinese rare earths companies.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Christopher Helman |Chris Helman

The 28-year-old data analyst had spent dozens of hours trying to better understand Sunnova Energy's financial statements. He had downloaded one of Sunnova's recent quarterly Supplemental Workbook data updates via Excel file from their investor relations website. He was frustrated that the read-only sheet clearly had dozens of rows and columns that were hidden from view and locked. But he was inspired. “Copy and paste was not disabled.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Christopher Helman |Chris Helman

In Moti Ferder’s lucrative gem-pire, selling fine baubles to A-plus List clients is only half the mission. In the vault at Lugano Diamonds’ headquarters in Newport Beach, California, CEO Moti Ferder unlocks one of dozens of drawers holding millions of dollars of jewelry to reveal a stunning necklace featuring 168 carats of diamonds cut to resemble snakeskin.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Christopher Helman |Chris Helman

Crusoe Energy got its start harnessing oilfield flare gas to mine bitcoin. So how did cofounders Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness end up building the first phase of the world’s biggest AI datacenter – $500 billion Project Stargate – for OpenAI and Oracle? It’s a windy, 80-degree, early March day at the 1,000-acre construction site in Abilene, Texas codenamed Project Ludicrous, where 2,000 workers toil over what will soon be one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence datacenters.