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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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