The new data regarding the EEZ’s of Egypt, Israel, Cyprus and Greece as well, even though the later hasn’t as yet established it, have altered our entire approach concerning the Eastern Mediterranean.
It doesn’t any longer appear as merely a section of the Mediterranean, but as an energean pole of attraction.
Consequently, even those who have been promoting the EEZ issues for so many years on, hadn’t in fact contemplated these developments.
They remained confined within a political party approach which didn’t lead anywhere as was proved by history.
In actual fact, the EEZ became dynamic only through the introduction of strategy and energy.
In this context, the entire vision itself has changed.
Because from a matter which for so many years was left aside due to the absence of strategy on behalf of the politicians and the field specialists, which gave the impression that it was in regards to purely a technical issue, it’s now substantiated as a dominant issue which concerns the nations, and with enormous interest at that, due to interests with common elements.
The Tamar, Leviathan and Aphrodite reserve discoveries had prepared the ground.
But the discovery of the Zohr reserve came to refute all the classical data and to highlight new type of reserves which obtain geological structures that are based on karstic limestone.
This phase change has triggered a new dynamic, as can be observed with Cyprus’s third licensing round which regards marine blocks 6,8,10 with the companies: Eni, Total, Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum, as well as the formal application of the Consortium: Hellenic Petroleum, Total and Exxon Mobil, re: South of Crete.
Consequently, the EEZ has been upgraded both due to energy and strategically as well.