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AOD Digboi Refinery, Technology with Ecology at Heart








                   1923                                                                                                                    1926                                 1964                                                                    1965

                  Digboi Renery                                                                                   Two product pipelines laid from                               Þ The public sector                                                    Assam Oil Company started
                  rebuilt. Crude                                                                                   Digboi to Tinsukia                                                undertakings Indian Reneries                                      marketing products under the
                  units, Coker,                                                                                                                                                      Limited and Indian Oil                                             brand name of “Assam Oil” with
                  KTU, Wax units,                                                                                                                                                    Company Ltd. merged to form                                        the symbolic charging rhino as its
                  boilers & power-                                                                                                                                                   Indian Oil Corporation Limited on                                  emblem
                  houses added (from                                                                                                                                                 September 1
                  1923-40)
                                                                                                                                                                                 Þ Assam Oil Company’s rst Autodiesel
                                                                                                                                                                                     Pump commissioned at Kohima






                   1942                                                                   1951-52                                                                               1981                                                                    1982

                                                                                                                                                                                 Digboi Renery along with the
                  Oil production                                                         Naharkatiya Oil Fields                                                                                                                                        Assam Oil Division
                                                                                                                                                                                 marketing operations of Assam
                  for World War                                                          discovered                                                                                                                                                    started marketing LPG
                                                                                                                                                                                 Oil Company became part of the
                  requirements
                                                                                                                                                                                 Indian Oil Corporation Limited on
                  actively pushed
                                                                                                                                                                                 October 14 and came to be known
                  up in Digboi and the
                                                                                                                                                                                 as the Assam Oil Division of Indian Oil
                  oil gained unusual
                                                                                                                                                                                 Corporation Ltd.
                  importance due to
                  Digboi’s proximity to the scene of
                  ghting








                  1956                                                                                  1959                                                                                       1996                                                  1989               1997
                                                                                                                                                                                                          1985
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Catalytic Reformer Unit
                  Development of Digboi Renery                                                         Promotion                                                                                                                                       Modern Efuent Treatment Plant
                                                                                                                                                                                              New CDU/VDU
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Modications in
                  Township and Moran Oil Field                                                          agreement signed                                                                    commissioned as a                                           commissioned       commissioned
                                                                                                                                                                                                       efuent system
                                                                                                        between AOC and                                                                   part of Digboi Renery
                                                                                                        Government of India                                                                    Modernization
                                                                                                        for formation of Oil                                                                       Project
                                                                                                        India Ltd.                                                                                (DRMP)









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