Oil and gas complexes and clusters: identification and monitoring

The need to identify and to organize the regional monitoring of industrial complexes and clusters is based on their strategically important role in the regional development. Legal documents and scientific publications do not properly cover the methods for identifying cluster members as well as for assessing the effectiveness of cluster policy. The development of more accurate methods of assessing the role of the TPC and the clusters in the economic development of the region on the basis of accounting and statistical reporting is required to evaluate the effectiveness of fiscal support for complexes (Territorial-production complex, TPC) and clusters along with the application of econometric models. This article dwells upon the problems of this segment. The analysis of such concepts as cluster and territorial-production complex serve as a base for the examination of various forms of inter-economic interaction on the example of oil and gas industry in Perm Region. This analysis also justify the deduction about the absence of competition in the areas of oil and gas, as well as in the production of petroleum products, and the presence of oil and gas complex in the Perm region. The article contains the results of the analytical work on structuring of oil and gas complex in Perm region and the assessment of its impact on the value added in 2008-2013; also it provides the information about the generalization of limitations of the official statistics in the area of inter-firm linkages evaluation and gives the base for the necessity of using a model of analysis and evaluation of oil and gas complexes and clusters of generalizing indicator gross of value added. The article suggests to introduce additional fields in the Unified State Register of enterprises and organizations in order to form the results of the TPC and clusters quicker than previously. The article also validates the necessity of legal regulation of the access of municipal and regional authorities and management to statistical reporting of companies which significantly affect the indicators of socio-economic development of the territory.