Design a steel frame is lifted onto the build table and the team walks around it, looking at the frame from all angles, scratching their heads and imagining what they could do with it.
One simple focused step: unleash natural gas and you can move the needle in million-barrel-per-day increments at a price and in a time-frame that nothing else on the table can.
All day Sunday, the maul continued - the stifling tension peaking as the last frame was whittled agonisingly down to the black, which was chased around the table until Taylor smoothly potted it at 11.23pm - to the delight of a late-night television audience of many millions.