Tag: energy and power resources

Ankleshwar, also famous as Gujarat's “City of Oil” is known for its industrial township called Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC).

Digboi is known as the Oil City of Assam where the first oil well in Asia was drilled. The first refinery was started here as early as 1901.

Naharkatia (also spelled as Naharkatia or Nahorkatiya) is a town and a town area committee in Dibrugarh district in the Indian state of Assam. It is well known for its petroleum and gas reserves. Earlier, Duliajan, the head office town of Oil India Limited was in its circle.

Kohima was originally known as Kewhira, It is called after the wild flowering plant Kewhi, found in the mountains.

So cities other than Kohima are associated with oil/petroleum.

Petroleum refinery is located in Barauni in the state of Bihar. It was built in collaboration with Soviet Union. It was started in July 1964.

• First oil refinery in India was set up in Digboi, a town in Tinsukia district of Assam. Digboi is also known as oil city. Oil refinery here was started in and around 1901.
  
• Present day, though the crude production is not high, Digboi has the distinction of being India's oldest oilfield. Digboi refinery which is now a division of Indian Oil Corporation, has a capacity of about 0.65 MMTPA as of 2003.