Clustering of oil refining plants in Russia

Today in Russian Federation there are more than 30 oil–refining plants that refine crude oil and make final consumption products. Because of a necessity of quick modernization of oil–refining plants taxes reforming decisions were made in 2014. In 2015 statistics showed a positive effect occurred by these measures and Russian oil refining industry became more competitive despite the low oil price fact. Nevertheless there are still problems as low processing depth, incomplete loading of facilities and really low indicators of particular plants. So the applied method of clustering oil refining plants was made to make recommendations for every group in order to make whole industry more effective.