EPSG meaning in oil and gas

The now-defunct European Petroleum Survey Group was formed in 1986. In 2005 the EPSG was incorporated into the Surveying & Positioning Committee of the International Association of Oil & Gas producers (OPG) and the combined group was subsequently renamed as the “OGP Geomatics Committee”. In 2006 the Surveying & Positioning Committee took custody of the former-UKOOA (now Oil & Gas UK) positioning formats. They have recently formed an agreement with the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) permitting deprecation of SEG’s positioning formats and recognition of the revised OGP positioning formats as their replacement. This places the Geomatics Committee as the single global source for positioning advice, guidance and formats provision for the upstream oil and gas industry. See