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AOD Digboi Refinery, Technology with Ecology at Heart

Growth Timeline 1899 1900

Assam Oil Assam Oil Company (AOC)
Company Limited formed by The Assam
1825-65 1866 formed Railway & Trading Company. The

construction of the renery started
The existence of crude First oil well drilled at
close to the oilelds
petroleum oil in India found in Nahorpung, 30 miles
the memoirs and dispatches of southeast of Digboi at a
the army ofcers who depth of 102 ft.
penetrated the jungles of upper
Assam

1867 1882 1901 1902

Mr Goodenough The Assam Railway & Trading Digboi Renery The very rst lot of ‘Kerosene
McKillop, Stewart & Company and Assam Oil commissioned with the running Oil’ produced from the Digboi
Company of Calcutta, Syndicate - the other two of the rst ‘Still’ in December with Renery reached the markets
struck oil at Makum, pioneers came across oil initial capacity of 500 barrels/ day on January 2
near Margherita, seepages near work sites
about eight miles around present Digboi, while
from Digboi, at 118 extending the Dibru Sadiya
ft. on March 26 railway line

1889 1893 1914 1921
Burmah Oil Company
Assam Oil Company
First commercial well AR&T Co. installed a tiny
(AOC) started intensive took over the control of
struck in Digboi at a renery at Margherita.
geological surveys Assam Oil Company
depth of 662 ft. Now Products - Kerosene
in North East (AOC)
known as Discovery Oil Oil and Timber Treating Oil
India
Well No.1. Oil eld
development around this
area also started

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