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Leading Oil & Gas Brands in AI Search in the United States

The Oil & Gas index re-ranked using only prompts and answers from United States.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Saudi Aramco leads AI search visibility in Oil & Gas in United States with a Goodie visibility score of 77.7, ahead of China National Petroleum Corporation (77.6) and TotalEnergies (75.9). The median score across the 15 ranked brands is 37.1, and a score above 19.8 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 5.4% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 25.8%.

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

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Oil & Gas · United States
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
37.1
Half of the 15 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
19.8
Clearing 19.8 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 17.3 points below the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
5.1
A typical answer names five brands, so the consideration set is narrow and a mention is hard-won.
Index-wide average is 8.2
Citation mix
  • UGC 3%
  • Editorial 6%
  • Video 2%
  • Reference 23%
  • Other 66%
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
25.8%
Owned content sits below the index-wide average here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
44/100
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
15 ranked here · 387 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
77.7
11.4%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 2.169wikipedia.org
02China National Petroleum Corporation
77.6
11.4%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 5.565wikipedia.org
03TotalEnergies
75.9
11.2%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 5.851iea.org
04Shell
75.4
11.1%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 1.544iea.org
05ExxonMobil
74.6
11.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 4.341iea.org
06PetroChina
56.5
8.3%AI ModeChatGPTPerplexity▼ 4.758wikipedia.org
07Chevron
55.4
8.2%ChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 3.535iea.org
08BP
37.1
5.5%ChatGPTCopilot▼ 1.611iea.org
09Equinor
35.9
5.3%AI ModeChatGPT▼ 3.653deloitte.com
10Sinopec
19.8
2.9%Perplexity▼ 1.439wikipedia.org
15 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
01youtube.com
5.4%
—
02iea.org
5.1%
▲ 9.1
03apple.com
4.5%
—
04finance.yahoo.com
4.5%
—
05facebook.com
4.1%
▲ 3.7
06reuters.com
3.5%
▼ 3.6
07wikipedia.org
3.4%
—
08axios.com
3.2%
—
09eia.gov
3.0%
▲ 4.5
10aramco.com
2.9%
▲ 4.5
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 trade32158
02Integrated oil companies shaping global energy markets45154
03National oil companies with global reach71153
04Oil companies investing in energy transition18149
05Which oil producers lead global output?15102
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising

No rising brands this month.

Falling
TotalEnergiesscore 75.9
▼ 5.8
PetroChinascore 56.5
▼ 4.7
15 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±3.3/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
127,127 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Oil & Gas, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States61K
02Australia12K
03United Kingdom12K
04Canada11K
05France8K
06Germany7K
07United Arab Emirates4K
08Egypt4K
09Saudi Arabia2K
10Italy2K
11Japan2K
12Singapore1K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Saudi Aramco leads Oil & Gas this edition with a visibility score of 77.7, ahead of China National Petroleum Corporation at 77.6.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding oil & gas answers, at roughly 5.4% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 25.8% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked oil & gas brands is 37.1, and a score above 19.8 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

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?
We Have
the Answers.

Saudi Aramco currently leads AI search visibility in oil & gas with a Goodie visibility score of 77.7, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in oil & gas AI answers, grounding roughly 5.4% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked oil & gas brands is 37.1. A score above 19.8 places a brand in the industry top ten.

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.