Nigeria, March 15 -- After more than six decades of production, Nigeria still has over 41 billion barrels of crude oil reserves untapped, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, has disclosed.

Nigeria discovered crude oil in 1956 at Oloibiri in the present-day Bayelsa State. Production began a year later in 1957, with the country's first cargo of crude oil export in February 1958.

Also, Mr Baru said about 319 trillion standard cubic feet of gas is yet to be discovered in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The bulk of the gas could be found in Nigeria, often described by oil industry experts as a gas province with little oil.

The country's gas reserves are reputed to be ten times as much as oi...