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

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

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, China National Petroleum Corporation leads AI search visibility in Oil & Gas on AI Mode in United States with a Goodie visibility score of 78.4, ahead of Saudi Aramco (77.1) and Shell (74.1). The median score across the 8 ranked brands is 73.6. The most-cited source grounding these answers is youtube.com at 6.7% 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 · AI Mode
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
73.6
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
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 7%
  • Editorial 8%
  • Video 5%
  • Reference 17%
  • Other 63%
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
55/100
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
01China National Petroleum Corporation
78.4
13.2%AI Mode—69investopedia.com
02Saudi Aramco
77.1
13.0%AI Mode—71youtube.com
03Shell
74.1
12.5%AI Mode—61youtube.com
04PetroChina
74.0
12.5%AI Mode▲ 1.461linkedin.com
05TotalEnergies
73.3
12.4%AI Mode▼ 6.564youtube.com
06Russia
72.6
12.2%AI Mode—3eia.gov
07ExxonMobil
72.1
12.2%AI Mode▼ 8.459youtube.com
08Equinor
71.3
12.0%AI Mode▼ 4.351deloitte.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
01youtube.com
6.7%
—
02energy-oil-gas.com
4.5%
—
03finance.yahoo.com
4.5%
—
04investopedia.com
4.5%
—
05facebook.com
4.4%
▲ 3.7
06eia.gov
4.0%
—
07yahoo.com
3.9%
—
08iea.org
3.9%
—
09energyintel.com
3.6%
—
10totalenergies.com
3.6%
—
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
01National oil companies with global reach3483
02Oil companies investing in energy transition1177
03LNG exporters influencing global energy trade1259
04Integrated oil companies shaping global energy markets2358
05Which oil producers lead global output?944
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
PetroChinascore 74.0
▲ 1.4
Falling
ExxonMobilscore 72.1
▼ 8.4
TotalEnergiesscore 73.3
▼ 6.5
Equinorscore 71.3
▼ 4.3
4 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±5.1/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
41,901 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Oil & Gas, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States22K
02Australia4K
03United Kingdom3K
04Canada3K
05Germany2K
06France2K
07United Arab Emirates1K
08Egypt1K
09Saudi Arabia825
10Italy762
11Japan717
12Singapore434
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

China National Petroleum Corporation leads Oil & Gas this edition with a visibility score of 78.4, ahead of Saudi Aramco at 77.1.

youtube.com is the most-cited source grounding oil & gas answers, at roughly 6.7% 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 73.6.

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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.

China National Petroleum Corporation currently leads AI search visibility in oil & gas with a Goodie visibility score of 78.4, measured across the tracked AI models.

youtube.com is the most-cited source in oil & gas AI answers, grounding roughly 6.7% 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.