The Tamar reserve was a proven natural gas field in 2009 and moved on to the commercial stage in 2013, four years later and although there is this concrete example with the EEZ of Israel, we still see, even now, ignorants of the energy and hydrocarbons sector, who want to convince us that the procedure needs a decade.
A simple reading of the data of this history, even without technical knowledge, allows the rejection of irrelevant arguments, which of course forget, due to ignorance or purposely so, the economic benefits from the sales of seismic maps and signature bonus revenue generated, much prior to the contract and the time of signing for research authorization, long before any drilling comes into effect. And here we have the actual example of Cyprus.
But it seems that communication is very selective, when information bothers simplistic approaches, which do not involve strategic analysis deriving from the data of the Exclusive Economic Zone as if they are still unknown to some.
When you have a simple house as a model of an entire country, when you confuse microeconomics with macroeconomics, you may assume, that your micropolitics could also be macropolitics.
While the basic elements of high strategy show that it has the potential to subvert the data of strategy and of tactics, because we have a scale change which causes a phase change. The EEZ does not fit into a partisanship approach because the latter does not have the scope of the former.