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Digboi Oil Refinery was set up at Digboi in 1901 by Assam Oil Company Ltd. The Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC) took over the refinery and marketing management of Assam Oil Company Ltd. with effect from 1981 and created a separate division. This division has both refinery and marketing operations. The refinery at Digboi had an installed capacity 0.5 million tonnes per year. The refining capacity of the refinery was increased to 0.65 million tonnes per year by modernization of refinery in July, 1996. A new delayed Coking Unit of 170,000 tonnes per year capacity was commissioned in 1999. A new Solvent Dewaxing Unit for maximizing production of microcrystalline wax was installed and commissioned in 2003. The refinery has also installed Hydrotreater-UOP in 2002 to improve the quality of diesel. The MSQ Upgradation unit has been commissioned. A new terminal was expected to be completed by 2016. It is one of the best oil fields in Assam. Certified
The small town of Digboi in the remote north eastern corner of the country is the birth place of the Oil Industry in India. Digboi Refinery, commissioned on 1901. It is India's oldest operating refinery and one of the oldest operating refineries in the world and termed as the "Gangotri of the Indian Hydrocarbon sector." Earlier owned and operated by the Assam Oil Company Limited/Burmah Oil Company, it came into the fold of the Indian Oil Corporation Limited and became the Assam Oil Division of Indian Oil Corporation Limited.
Digboi Oil Refinery was set up at Digboi in 1901 by Assam Oil Company Ltd. The Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC) took over the refinery and marketing management...
Digboi is known as the Oil City of Assam where the first oil well in Asia was drilled. The first refinery was started here as early as 1901. Digboi has...
1880s, the first oil refinery was set up at Digboi. DigboiRefinery was commissioned in 1901. Following is a list of oil refineries in India, per the Petroleum...
DigboiDigboi boasts of two modern wonders of the world – a hundred-year-old oil field still producing and the world’s oldest operating oil refinery....
1893 first refinery started at Margharita, Assam. The Assam Oil Company was established in 1899 to oversee production. In 1901, DigboiRefinery was commissioned...
were discovered in areas near to Dibrugarh town. Oil was discovered at Digboi in 1882 and coal was found at Margherita in 1876. All these greatly enhanced...
bombing and destruction of a five million-liter petrol reservoir at Digboirefinery in Tinsukia, with an estimated property loss of Rs 200million. On the...
well-known temple situated in the outskirts of Tinsukia city. DigboiRefinery, Asia's oldest refinery is situated here. A railway park is recent addition to...
[citation needed] The school is located at a landscaped area of 19 acres in Digboi, Assam. It was opened in 1996 and is a joint venture between Indian Oil...
a small refinery at Margharita (Upper Assam) with a capacity of 500 bbl/d (79 m3/d) was started to refine the Digboi-oil. 1901 Digboirefinery was commissioned...
the year 1889, this was second in the World in the far east of India at Digboi and Naharkatiya, Assam to its present status as a fully integrated upstream...
the first oil deposits in the country were discovered near the town of Digboi in the state of Assam. The natural gas industry in India began in the 1960s...
Northern and Eastern India from Trombay, Vizag, Barauni, Noonmati, DigboiRefineries and Budge-Budge sea Terminal and another company Inland Product Terminals...
processing computer, Flosolver. Rejuvenated India's one-hundred-year-old refinery at Digboi using the most modern molecular distillation technology. With TCS...
oil refineries located at Guwahati, Digboi, Numaligarh and Bongaigaon with a total capacity of 7 million tonnes per year. The Bongaigaon Refinery and...
Within six months of its raising, the regiment was ordered to move to Digboi to defend the oil fields. In early 1942, it moved to Ledo and was involved...
(7.7 million short tons) per annum. Asia's first refinery was set up at Digboi and discoverer of Digboi oilfield was the Assam Railways & Trading Company...
are more than 100 years old. The world's oldest running oil refinery is situated in Digboi (Tinsukia District). The entire district has many oil and natural...
resources of India. In Assam, the Assam Oil Company was producing oil at Digboi (discovered in 1889) and Oil India Ltd. (a 50% joint venture between Government...
the integrated petrochemical complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat, the largest refinery in the world. In 2001, Reliance Industries Ltd. and Reliance Petroleum...
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