Who first nbsp nbsp started nbsp the nbsp systematic programme of drilling for oil in Digboi region ...

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Who first started the systematic programme of drilling for oil in Digboi region?

Col Edwin L Drake

Mr. Goodenough

Lt. R. Wilcox

Major A. White

Explanation:

Mr. Goodenough of McKillop, Stewart & Co. Calcutta was the first in India to start a systematic programme of drilling for oil in November 1866, at Nahorpung about 30 miles (48 km) south east of Dibgoi, just seven years after the world's first commercial oil well was drilled in 1859, by Col Edwin L Drake in Pennsylvania, USA.