- Visibility17
- Citations0
- Sentiment71
- Site quality73
- AI readiness7
AI assistants name Energy Transfer Equity in 15% of answers, which is much more often than the typical company in its sector at 3.3%. Its overall score is 32 out of 100, ranking 1,031st of 2,047 companies. The company's website passes 1 of 14 technical checks for how ready the site is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the energy market: none named Energy Transfer Equity. AI assistants named it in 9 of 60 answers (15.0%). The typical energy company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Energy Transfer Equity ranks 12 of 109 in its sector.
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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.
An answer that names the company
“What are the best midstream companies for reliable natural gas transportation in the US?”
When evaluating the "best" midstream companies for reliable natural gas transportation in the US, it's important to consider a few factors:
"Best" is subjective: What's best for one investor (e.g., high growth) might not be for another (e.g., stable dividends). For "reliable transportation," we're generally looking at companies with strong existing assets, good contract profiles, and a track record of operational excellence.
Focus on natural gas: While many midstream companies transport crude oil, NGLs, and refined products, we'll narrow down to those with significant natural …
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.
This website turned most of our scan away, so it has no level. Only 24% of the checks could run. That reflects the website’s rules for automated visitors, and an AI agent arriving by itself meets the same rules.
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtCould not check
Publish a valid robots.txt with crawl rules and a Sitemap line.
- study: 86.8%SitemapNot met
Serve an XML sitemap and reference it from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
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 negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtCould not check
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesCould not check
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsCould not check
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthCould not check
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 CardCould not check
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardCould not check
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsCould not check
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 manifestCould not check
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 0 of 100 · 24% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.energytransfer.com · 2,047 companies scanned
1 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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- Not metrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- Not metXML 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%
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as US-listed.
- Who are the leading operators of natural gas distribution networks serving the Southwestern US?
- Differences between transporting natural gas versus natural gas liquids in the US midstream sector?
- Alternatives to pipeline transportation for moving large volumes of natural gas in North America?
- How can stakeholders benefit from modern automated gas distribution networks?
- Are large-scale gas storage providers worth the higher operational fees?
- What impacts the transportation fees charged by US gas pipeline networks?
- What are the best midstream companies for reliable natural gas transportation in the US?
- Top-rated US infrastructure partners for large-scale gas storage solutions?
- What are the main non-pipeline options for commercial gas storage in the US?
- What are common issues faced in long-distance gas pipeline operations and how can they be mitigated?
- Best use-cases for third-party pipeline access agreements in commercial energy distribution?
- How do natural gas pipeline operators compare to companies specializing in oil transport for investor returns?
- Is investing in US midstream infrastructure a good idea for stable income?
- How do midstream companies handle supply disruptions during extreme weather events?
- How do natural gas storage pricing structures typically work for industrial clients?
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.
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