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.
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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. Other nearby markers.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. Marker is at or near this postal address: 333 Wyandotte Street, Bethlehem PA 18015, United States of America. Marker is adjacent to the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem office and about 200 feet SSW of the Episcopal Cathedral Church of the Nativity. Marker is on Wyandotte Street (Pennsylvania Route 378), on the right when traveling north. Marker is in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in Northampton County. A significant historical year for this entry is 1859.
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In addition, it is included in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission series list. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites In 1902 his remains were moved from Bethlehem to memorial monument erected at Titusville.Įrected 1959 by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Lived at Bethlehem in this house for last seven years of his life, 1873-1880. It is in Bethlehem in Northampton County Pennsylvania Drilled first oil well in America in 1859 at Titusville, Pa. This historical marker was erected in 1959 by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. In 1902 his remains were moved from Bethlehem to memorial monument erected at Titusville. Drilled first oil well in America in 1859 at Titusville, Pa.
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