Plains All American Pipeline
plainsallamerican.com · Energy
Ranked 820 of 2,047 companies in the study
- Visibility17
- Citations0
- Sentiment75
- Site quality80
- AI readiness14
AI assistants name Plains All American Pipeline in 16.7% of answers, much more often than the typical company in the energy sector. Its overall score is 35 out of 100, ranking 820th of 2,047 companies reviewed. The website passes 2 of 14 technical checks for how ready it is for AI tools.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the energy market: none named Plains All American Pipeline. AI assistants named it in 10 of 60 answers (16.7%). The typical energy company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, Plains All American Pipeline ranks 10 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
“Leading providers of midstream logistics services for institutional energy clients in the U.S.?”
Leading U.S. midstream logistics providers for institutional energy clients include a mix of large integrated pipeline operators and specialized logistics firms. Based on the search results, the most clearly identified names are MPLX, DCP Midstream, Enterprise Products Partners, Phillips 66 Midstream, Plains All American Pipeline, Kinder Morgan, ONEOK, Targa Resources, EnLink Midstream, and Energy Transfer.
A few especially strong examples from the results are:
MPLX — described as “one of the largest full-service providers” i …
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 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.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 CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
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 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · www.plains.com · 2,047 companies scanned
2 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%
- 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%
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.
- GPTBotallowed
- ClaudeBotallowed
- Anthropic-AIallowed
- Google-Extendedallowed
- Applebot-Extendedallowed
- Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
- FacebookBotallowed
- Bytespiderallowed
- CCBotallowed
- Diffbotallowed
- Omgilibotallowed
- OAI-SearchBotallowed
- Claude-SearchBotallowed
- PerplexityBotallowed
- Applebotallowed
- Amazonbotallowed
- YouBotallowed
- ChatGPT-Userallowed
- Claude-Userallowed
- Perplexity-Userallowed
- DuckAssistBotallowed
- MistralAI-Userallowed
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 Large private companies.
- Leading providers of midstream logistics services for institutional energy clients in the U.S.?
- What are the best midstream energy infrastructure providers for crude oil logistics in the U.S.?
- Alternatives to traditional midstream storage solutions for managing fluctuating energy demand?
- How are terminal and storage fees calculated in the U.S. midstream energy market?
- Best practices for utilizing pipeline networks to connect producing basins with major market hubs?
- What are common operational challenges in U.S. crude oil pipeline networks and how can they be addressed?
- Pipeline gathering systems vs. storage facilities: which is more critical in the midstream supply chain?
- Are integrated terminal and storage solutions better for managing NGL distribution?
- What are alternatives to pipeline transportation for delivering crude oil across long distances?
- What factors affect the cost of transporting natural gas liquids through midstream pipelines?
- Is investing in midstream logistics services for natural gas worth the cost for large energy companies?
- How to resolve bottlenecks in natural gas liquids gathering systems?
- Top-rated companies for pipeline transportation of natural gas liquids in America?
- How do pipeline transportation and rail logistics compare for moving crude oil in the U.S.?
- How does energy infrastructure support efficient movement of crude oil from production to refineries?
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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