- Visibility0
- Citations0
- Sentiment50
- Site quality63
- AI readiness36
AI assistants do not name Expand Energy in any of their 60 answers, while the typical company in the energy sector is named in 3.3% of answers. Expand Energy's overall score is 24 out of 100, ranking it 1,881st of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 3 of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the energy market: none named Expand Energy. AI assistants named it in none of 60 answers. The typical energy company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Expand Energy ranks 74 of 109 in its sector.
Named fewer than three times in total. Read this as a sign that AI assistants rarely bring this company up, not as an exact comparison with its rivals.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
109 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
The company is not named in this answer
“What are some alternatives to integrated oil and gas companies for businesses seeking reliable natural gas supply?”
Businesses seeking reliable natural gas supply often look beyond integrated oil and gas majors to independent upstream producers, midstream pipeline and storage companies, and LNG-focused firms. Those alternatives can provide more direct exposure to natural gas production, transport, processing, and export capacity than integrated companies, which also have refining and retail businesses.
Some practical alternatives are:
Independent E&P producers: Companies that focus on exploration and production, including natural gas-heavy producers such as ConocoPhillips, …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersCould not check
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationCould not check
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogCould not check
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryCould not check
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceCould not check
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdCould not check
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 37 of 100 · 67% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.chk.com · 2,047 companies scanned
3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.
- GPTBotpartly
- ClaudeBotpartly
- Anthropic-AIpartly
- Google-Extendedpartly
- Applebot-Extendedpartly
- Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
- FacebookBotpartly
- Bytespiderpartly
- CCBotpartly
- Diffbotpartly
- Omgilibotpartly
- OAI-SearchBotpartly
- Claude-SearchBotpartly
- PerplexityBotpartly
- Applebotpartly
- Amazonbotpartly
- YouBotpartly
- ChatGPT-Userpartly
- Claude-Userpartly
- Perplexity-Userpartly
- DuckAssistBotpartly
- MistralAI-Userpartly
Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- How are long-term supply agreements priced in the integrated oil and gas industry?
- What are some alternatives to integrated oil and gas companies for businesses seeking reliable natural gas supply?
- What are the best integrated natural gas and oil producers in the U.S. for sustainable energy supply?
- What are the pros and cons of integrated energy producers versus pure-play natural gas firms?
- Are integrated producers better positioned for stable supply contracts compared to upstream-only oil and gas firms?
- Which types of energy suppliers offer alternatives to traditional integrated oil and gas producers?
- How does integrated oil and gas production differ from companies focused solely on exploration?
- How can investors mitigate risks associated with fluctuating natural gas prices in the integrated energy sector?
- How are integrated oil and gas producers supporting decarbonization goals for industrial clients?
- What pricing tiers exist for bulk natural gas contracts from integrated producers in the United States?
- Is investing in integrated natural gas and oil production companies worth it for long-term returns?
- What common issues do commercial buyers face when securing long-term supply from integrated oil and gas companies?
- Who are the top natural gas and oil suppliers focused on lower-carbon energy development?
- What non-integrated energy business models are competing with integrated natural gas and oil producers in the U.S.?
- What are typical commercial uses for integrated natural gas and oil output in the U.S. market?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.