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Leduc No. 1 was a major crude oil discovery made near Leduc, Alberta, Canada, on February 13, 1947. It provided the geological key to Alberta's most prolific conventional oil reserves and resulted in a boom in petroleum exploration and development across Western Canada .
Leduc's first FM radio station, CJLD-FM, began in 2013 and is known on-air as "93.1 The One". An internet-based community radio station, branded "Leduc Radio" since 2008, also serves the city. Due to its proximity to Edmonton, all major Edmonton media (print, radio and television) also serve Leduc and its surrounding area.
Leduc #1 well; released under GNU Free Documentation License. During the 1930s and early 1940s, oil companies tried unsuccessfully to find replacement for declining Turner Valley reserves. According to legend, Imperial Oil had drilled 133 dry wells in Alberta and Saskatchewan, although the records show that many of those wells were natural gas ...
The Leduc 022 was the prototype of a mixed-power French interceptor built in the mid-1950s. Designer René Leduc had been developing ramjet-powered aircraft since before World War II and had flown a series of experimental aircraft, the Leduc 0.10 and Leduc 0.21, throughout the 1950s before he was awarded a contract for two examples of a short-range supersonic interceptor armed with two air-to ...
René Henri Leduc (French pronunciation: [ʁəne ɑ̃ʁi lədyk]; April 24, 1898 – March 9, 1968) was a French engineer and aircraft manufacturer, renowned for his pioneering work in ramjet propulsion. Leduc's groundbreaking designs, including the Leduc 010, 016, 021, and 022, were instrumental in advancing supersonic aviation technology. [1]
Leduc County is a municipal district in Alberta, Canada, that is immediately south of the City of Edmonton. It spans 105 km (65 mi) east to west and 32 km (20 mi) north to south, and has a population of 14,416.
Richard Leduc (born 1941), actor; Simon Le Duc or Leduc (1742–1777), French violinist and composer; Stéphane Leduc (1853–1939), French biologist; Timothy LeDuc (born 1990), American pairskater; Violette Leduc (1907–1972), French author; Dave Leduc (born 1991), professional fighter; William Gates LeDuc (1823–1917), American soldier ...
The Leduc Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Devonian age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. [3] It takes its name from the city of Leduc, and it was formally described from the B.A. Pyrz No. 1 well in central Alberta, between the depths of 1,623.7 m (5,327 ft) and 1,807.5 m (5,930 ft), by Imperial Oil Limited in 1950.