To the question of economic security threats in oil and gas companies
Mission: give a general description of economic security threats, their types in and their specifi cs in the companies of the oil and gas industry; explore existing approaches and develop own approach to the classification of economic security threats in companies; consider criminal threats and their place in the general system of economic security threats in oil and gas companies; analyze the concept of ‘criminological security. Methodology: dialectical method, analysis, synthesis, formal logical method, comparative legal method, system method. Conclusions. As a result of the study, the author comes to conclusion that successful provision of any type of security, including economic security, largely depends on the organization of countering criminal threats - crimes. In modern conditions, we should not talk about criminological security as a separate type of security but about the criminological aspect (criminological content) of ensuring security of any kind, including economic security. Scientifi c and practical signifi cance. The author pays attention to the existence in the legal literature of various approaches to the classifi cation of economic security threats and gives his own classifi cation of threats. Currently, the main threats are located in the internal sphere of the companies and defi ned as corporate. Many of the corporate threats are criminal, or reasons and conditions for committing economic crimes at oil and gas companies. The author emphasizes the controversial of approaches to the essence of the concept “criminological security”. The controversial is determined by the diff erent content that the authors put into this concept.