A necessary element of the system of automated management of geographically distributed production facilities is multicriteria control of their safety. The urgency of the problem of ensuring industrial safety increases when it comes to dangerous and especially dangerous production facilities, the elimination of the consequences of accidents at which are associated with high environmental and economic damage to the state economy. The article substantiates the criteria for the analysis of scientific developments in the field under consideration. The results of the analysis of developments in the field of monitoring the state of geographically distributed production facilities by means of intelligent software and hardware complexes and systems using fiber-optic sensors, etc. are presented. Based on the justified criteria, the selection of technical solutions for the creation of a geographically distributed system for monitoring the state of production facilities of the oil and gas industry was made. © 2021 IEEE.