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The towers and pipework of the Digboi refinery against a pale sky, with the words “100 Years of Digboi Refinery” in Hindi and English, on a ₹4 stamp.
A Hundred Years of the Digboi Refinery
India Post issued this ₹4 stamp on 18 December 2001 for the centenary of the Digboi oil refinery in Assam. The refinery was set up at Digboi, in the Tinsukia district of north-eastern Assam, in 1901 by the Assam Oil Company; Indian Oil Corporation took over its refinery and marketing in 1981. It was modernised in 1996, raising its capacity from 0.5 to 0.65 million tonnes a year, and a delayed coking unit followed in 1999.
India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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