In Angola offshore fields could start pumping 500, 000 bpd next year, and deepwater fields off Brazil will add hundreds of thousands more, as will onshore fields in Algeria.
Andrew Strauss claimed an extra half hour to try to finish off Australia, but with the shadows lengthening Smith and Siddle showed enough nous to push the match into the final day, taking advantage of some hyper-attacking fields to add 42 runs in 10 overs.