CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -This project was inaugurated in Hyderabad by the Oil Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. It was implemented for tracking Indian oil’s refinery Gas Turbines through Remote Monitoring and Operation Centre. An Oil PSU implemented a multi-unit monitoring system for the first time in India.

Detailed explanation-2: -About Remote Monitoring System The remote monitoring system was first operated in GEs Atlanta Analytical Centre in the USA. The facility at Hyderabad is India’s first remote sensing monitoring system.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Indian Petroleum refining sector has come a long way since crude oil was discovered and the first refinery was set up at Digboi in 1901.

Detailed explanation-4: -The world’s first oil refinery opened at Ploieşti, Romania in 1856 . Several other refineries were built at that location with investment from United States companies before being taken over by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Detailed explanation-5: -The refining of crude petroleum owes its origin to the successful drilling of the first oil wells in Ontario, Canada, in 1858 and in Titusville, Pennsylvania, U.S., in 1859.