Oil and gas complexes and clusters: identification and monitoring

The necessity to identify and organize regional monitoring of industrial complexes and clusters is based on their strategically significant role in 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. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of fiscal support for complexes (territorial-production complex, TPC) and clusters, along with application of econometric models, it is necessary to develop more accurate methods of assessing the role of TPC and clusters in the economic development of the region on the basis of accounting and statistical reporting. This article dwells upon the problems of this segment. The analysis of such concepts as cluster and territorial-production complex serves as a basis for the study of various forms of inter-economic interactions through the example of oil and gas industry in the Perm Region. This analysis also justifies the conclusion regarding the absence of competition in the areas of oil and gas, as well as in production of petroleum products, and the presence of oil and gas complex in the Perm region. The article contains the results of analytical work on arranging the oil and gas complex in the Perm region and assessment of its impact on the value added in 2008-2013; it also provides information on generalization of limitations of official statistics in the area of inter-firm connections evaluation, and gives the basis for the necessity of using a generalizing indicator of gross value added in the model of analysis and evaluation of oil and gas complexes and clusters. The article suggests introducing additional fields in the Unified State Register of Enterprises and Organizations in order to obtain the results of TPC and clusters activity quicker than before. The article also validates the necessity of legal regulations of the access of municipal and regional authorities and management to statistical reporting of companies that significantly affect the indicators of socio-economic development of the territory.