The Williams Companies, Inc. (WMB)

Natural gas pipelines and processing, all U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 13 of the 32 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Williams’ 5,987 full-time employees, all in the United States, run interstate natural gas pipelines, gathering systems and processing plants, split 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: 20% now, 32% at the end of 2027, 38% at the end of 2028, 40% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 40% desk work, 12% people work and 48% 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 54% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 38% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

5,987 employees as of February 1, 2026 (stated). All 5,987 full-time employees are located throughout the United States, by the filing.

The filing: “As of February 1, 2026, Williams had 5,987 full-time employees located throughout the United States.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 5,987 full-time employees throughout the United States; voluntary turnover 6.3% in 2025; Transco and NWP have no employees, Williams providing their operations and management.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI, 11,028 employees)21% now, 36% by 2028
• MPLX Lp (MPLX, 5,762 employees)22% now, 40% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI twice: AI-enhanced security threats, and an executive’s expertise in enterprise AI initiatives.

• “While Williams believes that it maintains appropriate information security policies, practices, and protocols, Williams regularly faces cybersecurity and other security threats to its information technology infrastructure, including risks that may be enhanced through the use of artificial intelligence, which could include threats to operational industrial control systems and safety systems that...”
• “He has extensive expertise in digital transformation, cloud strategies, enterprise artificial intelligence initiatives, and cybersecurity, as well as managing large-scale system implementations and integrations.”

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 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20242median 4
• Fiscal 20252median 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.

Limits of this reading

• No count by segment; the split between pipelines and processing is by description.
• The segment and geography tables (West at 100%) are not usable.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000107263-26-000006, 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.