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About Digboi
Digboi (IPA: ˈdɪgˌbɔɪ) is a city and a Digboi Municipal Corporation in Tinsukia district in the north-eastern part of the state of Assam, India.
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History
In 1889, the English started a small oil installation at Digboi. In the year 1901, an oil refinery was started at Digboi, thus providing India as well as the continent of Asia with its first refinery. Assam Oil Company was formed in 1899 to look after the running of the oil business in this area. The Digboi oil field produced close to 7,000 barrels per day (1,100 m3/d) of crude oil at its peak, which was during World War II. The field was pushed to produce the maximum amount of oil with little regard to reservoir management; as a result, production started to drop almost immediately after the war. The current production from the Digboi fields is about 240 barrels per day (38 m3/d). Over 1,000 wells have been drilled at Digboi. In 1989, the Department of Posts, India came out with a stamp commemorating 100 years of the Digboi fields.
Today, though the crude production is not high, Digboi is still India's oldest continuously producing oilfield. Digboi refinery, now a division of Indian Oil Corporation, had a capacity of about 0.65 million tonnes per year as of 2003.
From the History section of Digboi on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Map of Digboi
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Getting there and nearby towns
Dibrugarh Mohanbari Airport (DIB) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 60 km away.
- Digboi Oil Town 1 km south, about 1 min by car
- Forest Village Lakhipathar 8 km northwest, about 8 min by car
- Margherita 13 km south, about 13 min by car
- Borgolai Grant No.11 15 km southeast, about 15 min by car
- Lido Town 16 km southeast, about 16 min by car
- Lido Tikok 16 km southeast, about 16 min by car
- Dum Duma 20 km north, about 20 min by car
- Mākum 21 km northwest, about 21 min by car
- Tinsukia 28 km northwest, about 28 min by car
- Deomali 27 km southwest, about 27 min by car
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Sources and licences
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, coordinates, regions and time zone
- OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0): places, airports, map data
- Wikidata (CC0 1.0): elevation, founding date, time zone, website
- Wikimedia Commons (see each image): photos
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): overview and history text
Photo credits
- Digboi Centenary Museum 04, Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Digboi Centenary Museum 02, Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Digboi Centenary Museum 01, Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Digboi Centenary Museum 03, Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Digboi Centenary Museum 06, Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Digboi Centenary Museum 05, Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Digboi Bungalow,Assam, Nilotpal Hazarika123, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Digboi Centenary Museum 08, Subhashish Panigrahi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Digboi Oil Refinery Guest House, Nilotpal Hazarika123, CC0
- Bougainvillea in the garden, Kritartha05, CC BY 4.0
- A pink dahlia in garden, Kritartha05, CC BY 4.0
- Common Snipe, Geetanjalidhar, CC BY-SA 3.0
- টোপোলা ভাত tupula vaat, Nayan j Nath, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Sky and the Nature, Nilotpal Hazarika123, CC BY-SA 4.0
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