Oil and gas complex plays a crucial role in the modern economy both the Russian Federation and the world as a whole. Damage from the fire and downtime entail huge losses. To improve the fire departments in ensuring the fire safety of oil and gas complexes is necessary to define the tasks of management, steps of the management process, particularly the decision-making. Problems solved by the management, are divided into three classes: planning; the operational management; compensation plans. When planning the system selects the goals, means and methods are determined by the goal, taking into account sufficiently stable factors required forces and resources, their sources and method of distribution logistics between units of fire protection. The purpose of planning is to draw up plans for search and rescue operations on a sufficiently large number of types of accidents. Operational management is to ensure the functioning of the system in accordance with the plans and conditions which govern the relationship between the elements of the system. Correction consists in drawing up plans for the new plan in terms of disturbances due to the reallocation of existing resources. To keep the fire at the proper level is required to develop appropriate scenarios of accidents and ways of their elimination, to conduct a comprehensive assessment of action at the head of the fire extinguishing acceptance of management decisions, as well as to justify the quantitative requirements for the control system of fire protection units.