Energy Transfer LP (ET)
Pipeline operator, 22,311, three businesses by description. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 1 of the 7 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
22%
End of 2028
37%
Employees, annual report
22,311
Leading staffing pattern
Pipeline Transportation
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now22%
- End of 202732%
- End of 202837%
- End of 203038%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 58%
- Becomes checking a model's work 34%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
A midstream partnership whose filing states one total across its pipelines, fuel distribution and compression businesses without counting them, so the pipelines lead by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 22% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 37% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 13% people work and 49% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 58% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 34% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
22,311 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; its pipelines, plants and fuel distribution are in the United States.
The filing: “Human Capital Management As of December 31, 2025, Energy Transfer and its consolidated subsidiaries employed an aggregate of 22,311 employees, 1,362 of which are represented by labor unions.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Pipeline Transportation | 75% | By description (c): the natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids pipelines, gathering systems, processing plants and terminals are the business, read at pipeline transportation for three quarters, since the filing counts no segment. |
| Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods (4241, 4247, and 4249 only) | 15% | By description (c): the consolidated fuel distribution business, which sells motor fuel to stations and distributors, is read at petroleum wholesale at 15%. |
| Support Activities for Mining | 10% | By description (c): the consolidated compression services business, which operates compressors at well sites and gathering systems, is read at support activities for oil and gas at a tenth. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 22,311 employees at Energy Transfer and its consolidated subsidiaries as of December 31, 2025 (16,248 a year earlier, after acquisitions); 1,362 represented by labor unions.
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI once, as a source of deepfakes in cyber attacks.
- “Cyber attacks, including, but not limited to, malicious software, surveillance, credential stuffing, spear phishing, social engineering, use of deepfakes (i.e., highly realistic synthetic media generated by artificial intelligence), attempts to gain unauthorized access to data, and other electronic security breaches that could lead to disruptions in critical systems, unauthorized release of con...”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 22,311 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 16,248 | 2025-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 13,786 | 2024-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 12,565 | 2023-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 12,558 | 2022-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 11,421 | 2021-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 12,812 | 2020-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 11,768 | 2019-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 29,486 | 2018-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 30,992 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 30,078 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 27,605 | 2015-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 13,573 | 2014-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 14,433 | 2013-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 2,477 | 2012-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 6,229 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 4,247 | 2010-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 4,277 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-08-31 | 4,340 | 2007-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2006-08-31 | 3,900 | 2006-11-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Pattern shares rest on descriptions (c); the filing counts no segment.
- No U.S. share is stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001276187-26-000013, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Energy Transfer LP's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 22% now and 37% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Energy Transfer LP's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Energy Transfer LP employ?
- 22,311 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Energy Transfer LP's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Pipeline Transportation; by those patterns the work is about 38% desk work, 13% people work and 49% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Energy Transfer LP's annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 1 and 1 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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