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Leading Oil & Gas Brands in AI Search in China

The same monthly sample, re-ranked using only Perplexity answers.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Saudi Aramco leads AI search visibility in Oil & Gas on Perplexity in China with a Goodie visibility score of 80.8, ahead of PetroChina (77.6) and ExxonMobil (77.1). The median score across the 8 ranked brands is 75.2. The most-cited source grounding these answers is sina.com.cn at 12.5% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 26.9%.

35k prompts · 2.6m AI answers · 11.1m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Oil & Gas · Perplexity
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
75.2
Half of the 8 ranked oil & gas brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 73.0
Score to enter the top 10
—
Fewer than ten brands are ranked in this category, so there is no top-ten bar to report yet.
Brands named per answer
4.9
A typical answer names five brands, so the consideration set is narrow and a mention is hard-won.
Index-wide average is 8.1
Citation mix
  • UGC 4%
  • Editorial 5%
  • Video 3%
  • Reference 9%
  • Other 79%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding oil & gas answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
26.9%
Owned content is in line with the index-wide average here.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
57/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
35k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.6m
295k in October · ▼ 0.3% vs September
Citations parsed
11.1m
1m in October · ▲ 13.9% vs September
Brands observed
402
8 ranked here · 394 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Oil & Gas, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Saudi Aramco
80.8
13.3%Perplexity▲ 3.675kingsresearch.com
02PetroChina
77.6
12.8%Perplexity▲ 7.656disfold.com
03ExxonMobil
77.1
12.7%Perplexity▲ 2.564ogj.com
04Sinopec
76.1
12.6%Perplexity—56kingsresearch.com
05TotalEnergies
74.3
12.3%Perplexity▲ 2.752ogj.com
06Chevron
73.9
12.2%Perplexity▲ 2.151disfold.com
07Shell
73.3
12.1%Perplexity—46ogj.com
08Petronas
73.2
12.1%Perplexity—56kingsresearch.com
8 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Oil & Gas
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01sina.com.cn
12.5%
—
02sinopecnews.com.cn
6.7%
—
03bain.com
5.0%
—
04people.com.cn
5.0%
—
05youtube.com
4.4%
—
06totalenergies.com
3.9%
—
07reuters.com
3.5%
▲ 4.1
08iea.org
3.5%
▲ 4.1
09businessmodelanalyst.com
3.3%
—
10futunn.com
3.3%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Oil & Gas, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01LNG exporters influencing global energy trade535
02Oil companies investing in energy transition1527
03Integrated oil companies shaping global energy markets2526
04National oil companies with global reach2618
05哪家国家石油公司是真的在全球有存在感?1010
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
PetroChinascore 77.6
▲ 7.6
Saudi Aramcoscore 80.8
▲ 3.6
TotalEnergiesscore 74.3
▲ 2.7
Falling

No falling brands this month.

5 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±3.7/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
2,113 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Oil & Gas, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States1K
02United Kingdom229
03Australia121
04Canada87
05Germany70
06France52
07United Arab Emirates39
08Egypt37
09Italy22
10Saudi Arabia22
11Japan22
12Singapore14
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Saudi Aramco leads Oil & Gas this edition with a visibility score of 80.8, ahead of PetroChina at 77.6.

sina.com.cn is the most-cited source grounding oil & gas answers, at roughly 12.5% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 26.9% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked oil & gas brands is 75.2.

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Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Oil & Gas

Questions?
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the Answers.

Saudi Aramco currently leads AI search visibility in oil & gas with a Goodie visibility score of 80.8, measured across the tracked AI models.

sina.com.cn is the most-cited source in oil & gas AI answers, grounding roughly 12.5% of citations in this industry.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.