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	Digboi Refinery
		It was here in Digboi that the first commercially viable well in India, known locally as well No.1, was successfully drilled in September'1889 and first modern refinery in India was built and commissioned in December'1901 to supplant a small "batch-still" refinery in Margherita.
		The Digboi Refinery was commissioned in December'1901 and supplanted the earlier small refinery unit at Margherita.
		The Digboi Refinery modernization project was taken up in large scale in order to overcome the technological obsolescence of the old refinery.
	tinsukia.nic.in /subpages/digboi.html (835 words)

	Digboi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Digboi is an oil town in northern Assam (in North East India).
		Digboi Refinery at Present The Digboi Refinery modernization project was taken up in large scale in order to overcome the technological obsolescence of the old refinery.
		Digboi is emerging as a town of worldclass streets and medical facilities.It is ranked in higher position for most number of literacy rate.this place is also enriched for rich cultural organisations and care socities.The following data is compiled by govind sharma(SRR engg college, chennai).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Digboi (802 words)

	Digboi, Assam's Oil City also famous for its Golf courses.
		Digboi boasts of two modern wonders of the world, a hundred year old oil-field still producing and the world's oldest operating oil refinery and also British life-style complemented by clubs and Golf Courses.
		The nearest airport of Dibrugarh is 65 km from Digboi.
		Digboi oil-field is not just an oil-field, but an oil museum and a wildlife sanctuary of surpassed beauty.
	www.travelmasti.com /domestic/assam/digboi.htm (316 words)

	Digboi: the first oil well in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Digboi in Assam is an oil town that can be traced to the early 18th century, when oil was first discovered here.
		The first commercial discovery of crude oil in the country was, however, made in 1889 at Digboi when a group of men erected a 20 meter high thatch covered wooden structure, marking the establishment of the first well at Digboi (Well No. 1 or the Discovery well).
		Digboi oilfield is not another oilfield, but an oil museum with a history to be proud of.
	edugreen.teri.res.in /explore/n_renew/digboi.htm (406 words)

	rediff.com: World's oldest oil refinery in Assam turns 100
		Embedded in history, the Digboi refinery in eastern Assam, 527 km from the state's principal city Guwahati, has become a piece of local legend, apart from being an industrial unit producing 650,000 metric tons of crude oil annually.
		The Digboi refinery, the flagship of the state-run Indian Oil Corporation and the country's largest commercial enterprise, has chalked out an extravaganza later this year to mark the centenary celebrations.
		Today, Digboi boasts of two modern wonders of the world - a 100-year-old oilfield that still yields oil and the world's oldest operating oil refinery that produces in excess of its capacity.
	www.rediff.com /money/2001/jul/25digboi.htm (498 words)

	Digboi, 100, still alive and kicking
		Digboi oilfield, now under OIL, is perhaps the only oilfield in the world which has been producing oil for the past 100 years.
		Digboi refinery was the first refinery in the country to use natural gas as fuel.
		For a refinery of the size of Digboi (crude throughput capacity 0.65 million tonnes), a workforce of 2700 is considered to be on the high side.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2001/12/17/stories/141750dg.htm (1007 words)

	Digboi,Assam Digboi Travel,Digboi,City Travel in India,Destination Digboi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Digboi is Assam's oil city with a history going back to the early 18th century, when oil was first discovered in the area.
		Digboi boasts of two modern wonders of the world-- a hundred year old oil-field still producing oil and the world's oldest operating oil refinery.
		Digboi has an 18 holes Golf course considered the best in the entire upper Assam, where all important tournaments are held.
	www.destinationindia.com /travel_guide/assam/digboi.html (735 words)

	One killed, 11 wounded in Digboi blast
		One person was killed and 11 were wounded in a blast in the oil town of Digboi in Assam Monday, police said.
		Digboi is 520 km east of Assam's main city of Guwahati.
		However, the rebel group had Saturday said they were not involved in the blasts since Thursday and termed them as an attempt to derail the ongoing peace talks with the central government.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060612/360872.html (186 words)

	Digboi Assam, Travel to Digboi, Oil City of Assam, Oil Centres in India, Assam Oil City, Golf Course in Digboi, ...
		Digboi boasts of two modern wonders of the world-- a hundred year old oil field still producing oil and the world's oldest operating oil refinery.
		Digboi oil field is not just an oil field, but also an oil museum and a wildlife sanctuary of unsurpassed beauty.
		Are you among the supporters of eco tourism, then this eco park is just the place for you to be visited, presenting a glimpse of the rich diversity of flora and fauna that abounds the state of Assam.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /assam/digboi (881 words)

	DIGBOI – THE FIRST ASIAN OIL TOW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the year 1889 the company found oil in Digboi and from then the oil industry in India got started.
		During the time of the wooden bridge the rail engine could not pull its wagon over the bridge and so labors were engaged to push the wagons one by one over the bridge.
		Much before the formal permission for lease of the land at Digboi was granted from the Government of India in 1893, ARTandCo started drilling at Digboi in 1889.
	www.discoverfareast.com (900 words)

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		Digboi oilfields The IOC forest at Digboi oilfields is largely secondary and all at 100-200m elevation.
		Silver-breasted Broadbill Serilophus lunatus (Collared Broadbill, Hodgson's Broadbill) 5 in Digboi oilfields on 8/3.
		Leopard, Panthera pardus 1 lying on the road late afternoon at Digboi oilfields 9/3 (identified firstly as a monkey, then as a tiger by the locals!), walked to the side of the road as we approached slowly in the car and sat in the roadside vegetation (JH).
	www.princeton.edu /~vivekt/trips/NE-India98.html (20413 words)

	BBC News \| Despatches \| Huge fire at Indian oil refinary
		They said that the fire broke out at the Digboi oil refinary just past midnight, but how that happened is not yet known.
		The spokesman of the Digboi oil refinary said that a massive fire broke out at the wax plant in the refinary.
		Digboi is Assam's oldest refinary and dates back to the days when the British first discovered oil in Assam earlier in the century.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/despatches/46296.stm (234 words)

	Digboi Majuli Tezpur Assam,Digboi Travel,Majuli Travel,Tezpur Travel in Assam,Assam India Tour,Assam Travel,Travel to ...
		Digboi have the oldest operating and second oldest oil field in the world and Digboi refinery became a centenarian in 2001.
		Irene was told by Mrs Nani, the tigress with one of her cub was right there in Lawn and they had to wait for 4 hrs for the wild ones to make passage for the family.
		The worlds oldest operating Oil Machinery of Digboi is still producing in excess of its capacity and hence the name of Digboi is the "Oil City of Assam".
	www.northeastindiadiary.com /assam-travel/digboi-majuli-tezpur-assam.html (991 words)

	India Statescan, Mar 23, 2003, The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Digboi, about 100 fire-fighters had to battle until the next day to douse the flames, which at one stage rose to 80 feet.
		Hasheem Ahmed, a refinery official, said: "We acted quickly and by 2 a.m., we had evacuated all the employees and their family members from around the tank farm, the scene of the attack." IOC officials put the loss at Rs 13.5 crore.
		Digboi, Asia's oldest oil refinery, was built by the British in 1901.
	www.the-week.com /23mar23/events5.htm (2346 words)

	Assam Sights
		Digboi: It seems incongruous that this verdant, beautiful garden city of Digboi should also be the site where industrial history was created over a hundred years ago.
		It was an elephant that led the men engaged in laying railway tracks near Digboi to where the oil was, coming into the site with oil on its’ feet, as goes the saying.
		It was not until 1889 that the first well at Digboi still preserved as a monument to the pioneers and their epoch- making endeavour was struck and real commercial success was scented.
	www.culturalpursuits.com /assam_sights.htm (2787 words)

	USATODAY.com - Official: Mortar attack causes refinery fire in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Officials at the Digboi Oil Refinery in India's northeastern Assam state said they heard two loud blasts at 11:45 p.m.
		The Digboi oil refinery was set up by India's former colonial British rulers in Assam's thick, hilly forests in 1901, and is one of the country's industrial showpieces.
		Digboi is located 400 miles east of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-03-08-india-fire_x.htm (341 words)

	Digboi India, Digboi Tour, Digboi Travel, Digboi Tourism, Digboi City, India Travelog
		Digboi- Digboi is one of the popular cities of Assam surrounded by number of tea gardens and mystic blue hills.
		Travelling to Digboi was not at all a problem as it is well connected city through all mediums.
		And I have friend in Digboi, he is living here for past 20 years and know everybody" I manipulated the entire thing and answered him all rubbish that I could have.
	www.indiatravelog.com /assam/digboi.html (390 words)

	Crosfield Papers: Introduction
		Present at this picnic are Bill and Jean Fleming, stationed in Digboi, Gena and Maurice Wathen, stationed in Badarpur (Lower Assam), and LMC and MEC from Chittagong.
		Digboi is an oil field in the far northeast of Upper Assam, roughly on a line between Dibrugarh on the Brahmaputra and Ledo on the Burmese border.
		Laurence Fleming has definitely identified the garden in which lunch is taking place as his family's house in Digboi, and MEC is in the hat with a white band around it.
	www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk /album11.html (702 words)

	Oil India Limited :: Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The first commercial discovery of crude oil in the country was, however, made in 1889 at Digboi when a group of galllant oilmen erected a 20 meter high thatch covered wooden structure at the head of the Brahmaputra valley, in the extreme corner of northeastern India.
		The discoverer of this Digboi oilfield was the Assam Railways & Trading Company Limited (AR&T Co. Ltd.), a registered company of London in 1881,with objectives to explore the rich natural resources of Upper Assam.
		Following the discovery of Digboi well No.1, systematic drilling began in 1891 by ARandT Co Ltd. which then represented the final frontiers of technology and enterprise at a time when oil exploration was no more than just a gleam in the eye of most nations.
	www.oilindia.nic.in /ourcomp_backdrop.htm (727 words)

	India - News - World's Oldest Oil Refinery In Assam Facing Closure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		An elephant working on a project to lay railway tracks near Digboi led the Britishers to the oil-rich areas after they noticed that its feet were covered in oil.
		But it was not until 1889 that the first well at Digboi (well no. 1), still preserved as a monument to the pioneers and their epoch-making endeavor, was struck and real commercial success was scented.
		Today, Digboi boasts of two modern wonders - a hundred-year-old oilfield still producing crude and the world's oldest operating oil refinery producing in excess of its capacity.
	www3.estart.com /india/news/digboi.html (564 words)

	Birdwatching trip report - North-east India - surfbirds.com
		To enter the Oilfields, a permit must be obtained at Digboi Police Office and it is not possible to enter without a police escort.
		Rufous Treepie Dendrocitta vagabunda 1 at Dibrugarh airport on 21st; Digboi Oilfields: 2 on 29th; Kaziranga NP: 3 and 5 birds respectively noted on 31st and 1st.
		Greenish Warbler Phylloscopus trochiloides Digboi Oilfields: 1 on 29th; 2 at Kohora on 30th; Kaziranga NP: between 4 and 10 birds noted daily.
	www.surfbirds.com /mb/trips/india-mr-0803.html (8305 words)

	Blessingsonthenet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Digboi is Assam's oil city with a history going back to the early 18th century.
		National Oil Park- Digboi oil-field is not just an oil-field, but an oil museum and a wildlife sanctuary of surpassed beauty.
		War Cemetry- The most dramatic event in Digboi's history took place during the World War II days when the belligerent Japanese got closer and were within three days marching distance of Digboi.
	www.blessingsonthenet.com /travel/showplace4.asp?place=Digboi (305 words)

	CNN.com - Rebels attack Indian refinery - Mar. 8, 2003
		Officials at the Digboi Oil Refinery said they heard two loud blasts around midnight, after which oil started gushing out of a tank and caught fire.
		The Digboi refinery was set up by India's former colonial British rulers in Assam's thick, hilly forests in 1901, and is one of the showpieces of the country's industrial heritage.
		Digboi is located 650 kilometers (403 miles) east of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/08/india.refinery.ap (359 words)

	Assam Cities, Cities in Assam
		Digboi is a major oil town which is surrounded by numerous tea gardens and hills.
		The Digboi Refinery was started in 1901 as the first refinery of Asia and the second refinery in the world.
		Tezpur is situated on the north bank of the majestic river Brahmaputra, and known for the magnificent scenic beauty and exquisite archaeological ruins.
	www.indovacations.net /english/AssamCities.htm (707 words)

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