Digboi oil well and refinery
Primer pozo y refinería de petróleo de Digboi
- Date
- 1889 · confidence high
- Place
- Digboi, Assam, India
- Credited to
- Assam Railways and Trading Company
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Railway engineers laying a line in Assam found seeping oil and in 1889 drilled India's first productive well; the Digboi refinery has operated since 1901 and is one of Asia's oldest still in service.
The first well (Digboi, 1889) was drilled by the Assam Railways and Trading Company; the 1901 refinery followed the Makum field discovery.
What it led to
- India's petroleum industry in Assam
- the Assam Oil Company and later refineries
- fuel for the railway and Brahmaputra shipping