jorp meaning in oil and gas

Joint Operating and Reporting Procedures

from the a major oil and gas company Directional Survey Handbook (BPA-D-004): documents which describe the way in which survey services are to be conducted on a major oil and gas company Amoco operations. There is a separate JORPs document for each vendor of survey services. MWD and other survey tools also have separate JORPs. The documents are written jointly by the survey vendor and a major oil and gas company Amoco UTG, but are maintained and distributed by the vendor.