Digboi boasts of two modern wonders of the world-- a hundred year old oil field still producing oil and the world's oldest operating oil refinery. Popularly known as the city of oil, oil was first found over here in 1879, and drilling started off in 1888 and in 1889. Assam Oil Company established the first oil refinery of Asia in Digboi and work in the oil refinery started in 1900.

Still later, being amalgamated with Burma Oil Company, Digboi became the most modern oil refinery. Crude oil is being refined here with 34 varieties of oil byproducts and one of them is Dolls, which are made from wax.

Centering the refinery, this city, founded by the British, is like a painting on a canvas. The place still continues as a tiny island of the colonial culture. The atmosphere is sylvan outside the town, where wild Elephants run amuck.

Once following the pressure caused by the wild move of elephants, existence of oil here came to notice. It is not unusual to see tigers & rhinos in the suburb forest.

Prime Attractions

National Oil Park

Digboi oil field is not just an oil field, but also an oil museum and a wildlife sanctuary of unsurpassed beauty. One can stand near the continent's oldest oil well known as the Discovery Well completed in 1889 AD. In the evening one may just come across a herd of elephants grazing lazily at branches of trees or just gazing at one or have a close encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger, besides some rare species of birds.

War Cemetery

The most dramatic event in Digboi's history took place during the World War II days when the belligerent Japanese got closer and were within three days' marching distance of Digboi. If one knows the history behind the World War and the Japanese invasion, then as one pays obeisance to the war heroes at the cemetery one can well imagine how many young lives were nipped in the bud at battle, how many lives laid down for the country. The horror of war can only be imagined and here in this cemetery one can feel a sense of peace, a sense of worship for lives lost not in vain.

Digboi Golf Course

Digboi has an 18 hole Golf course considered to be the best in the entire upper Assam, where all-important tournaments are held. There are 8 other 9 hole Golf courses with tea estates between Dibrugarh and Doom Dooma too.

Dibru Saikhowa Wildlife Sanctuary

This sanctuary is a safe haven for extremely rare White Winged Wood Duck and many migratory birds. Speciality of Dibru Saikhowa is it's wild horses, called Feral Horses.

How to Get There

Air:
The nearest airport Dibrugarh is 65-km from Digboi.

Rail:
On Dibrugarh-Ledo broad gauge rail pass regular train leave for Dibrugarh, New Tinsukia, and Digboi.

Road:
National Highway-38 runs through Digboi. In between Dibrugarh and Digboi, there is Tinsukia. From Tinsukia, one can visit may visit Dibrugarh (47-km), Digboi (33-km), Teju in Arunachal Pradesh (108-km), and Parasuram Kunda (129-km).