![]() Torsion balance which was successfully adapted for geophysical surveys of oil was used at Bordubi (Assam) by a geophysical team in 1925. Gradually by 1921, in a phase-wise manner, BOC acquired petroleum interests of AOC. Ltd (formed by a syndicate of Budderpore tea garden during 1911-13) began testing option in the Badarpur structure in the Surma valley (Upper Assam). Later on UK based Burma Oil Company (BOC) arrived in 1911 in Upper Assam (Surma Valley) and in 1915, after acquiring Oil interest from Budderpore Oil Co. It is still functional and world's oldest operating refinery.įailure to utilize geologic reasoning, promiscuous wild catting, misguided investment and nonchalance of the management towards technical support led to compounding of errors by AOC which made the company technically and financially impotent. Thereafter, systematic drilling began in 1891 and two years later in 1901, Asia's first oil refinery was set up in at Digboi. AR&T established Assam Oil Company (AOC) in 1899 with a capital of £310,000 to take over the petroleum interests of AR&T, including the Digboi and Makum concessions and set up a small refinery at Margharita (Upper Assam) with a capacity of 500 bopd to refine the Digboi-oil. Probably the name Digboi itself came from that word.ĪR&T subsequently acquired a 77.7 square kilometer petroleum-rights concession in the Makum area of Assam, and by 1893 had drilled 10 wells at Digboi producing 757.08 liters/day. Looking this, the elated English owner cried out to his men, “Dig boy, dig". This led men to trail to the salt lick where seepages were prolific. To add color to geologic reasoning legend was created that during the construction of a railway line by AR&T, in the year 1867, a herd of logging elephants returned to camp with their feet covered in oil after a night time excursion to find food and water. Ltd.), registered at London, is regarded as the first commercially successful oil discovery (200 gallons per day). However, the first well dug at Digboi field in Assam in September 1889 and completed in November 1890 at depth of 662 feet by Assam Railways and Trading Company Limited (AR&T Co. In his second attempt on 26 March 1867, oil was struck at merely 118 feet (35.97-m) in Asia's first mechanically drilled well at Makum near Margherita area of Upper Assam. Goodenough of McKillop, Stewart and Company, Calcutta, drilled a hand-dug well of 102 feet at Nahorpung near Jaipur area of Upper Assam but failed to establish satisfactory production. ![]() Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 at Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1866, Mr. Medicott (1865) of the Geological survey of India also saw oil seepages while prospecting for coal in upper Assam.īarely seven years after Edwin L. ![]() Griffith, W.Licut Bigge–they all saw at different times petroleum seepages from the banks of river Dihing. The story of oil exploration in India began in the dense jungles and swamps and river-valleys of the north-eastern corner of the country. ![]()
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