Chris Helman
Correspondent at Forbes
I'm the southwest correspondent for Forbes, based in Houston. On the lookout for the next generation of energy tycoons.
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1 week 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.
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1 week 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.
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2 weeks 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.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Christopher Helman |Chris Helman
Aboard Air Force One on Sunday, President Trump rationalized the effect his chaotic tariff talk was having on global stockmarkets. “I don't want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” he said. Oil companies have already had enough medicine. Crude oil closed down 1.65% at $61 a barrel today, after briefly dipping below $60. That's off more than $10 in a week and 25% lower than when Trump took office.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Christopher Helman |Chris Helman
After two days of deliberations, a jury in North Dakota state court decided on Wednesday that Greenpeace owes $660 million in damages to pipeline giant Energy Transfer, controlled by billionaire Kelcy Warren. The civil case concerned the year-long protests in 2016-2017 by anti-fossil fuel activists attempting to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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