The article carried out a comprehensive study and analyzed a set of indicators reflecting the performance of companies in the oil and gas industry in Russia, namely, the return on sales by net profit, the ratio of operating expenses (including tax payments), the tax burden, the ratio of revenue to hydrocarbon production, the ratio operating costs to production, the ratio of net profit to production, the coefficient of economic efficiency of capital investments. Thus, the purpose of this research was to assess the effectiveness of the oil and gas industry in Russia. The article based on the works of domestic and foreign scientists in the field of forecasting the world and Russian energy, general theoretical, macroeconomic, regional issues, including those related to the energy supply of the economy, the study of energy economics, energy efficiency, etc.