While there is now historical data to enable everyone to understand the importance of being a source of a production, many do not see the difference between a country passage and a country source, in regards to the energy sector.
So they assume that it’s the same thing having pipelines cross through your country, and for you yourself to do the mining in the country with a consortium.
In actual fact, the issue is very simple, since in substance it can be encoded mathematically.
At first, it is important to understand an intermediate, and that is the difference in dynamics between LNG ships and pipelines.The LNG ships are definitely more flexible, since they can, when required, to change direction at any time, as opposed to the pipelines, which seem to have a high inertia due to their construction. The difference is not only due to the cost, as this is also relevant, since the production of LNG requires a liquefaction plant. The big difference is the transport capacity of the entire network. That’s how it’s issue appears.
Over time, we have the impression that a pipeline is much more stable and in actual fact it’s not mobile. But with geopolitics we see that this is an illusion. Because we forget that the passage of a pipeline can be where we want it to be and only technology is the limit, but politics remain the dominant factor. And whenever it wants to, it can change and reform everything, since its decision may be to have a pipeline pass from another region or even another country. In this case, the country which is merely a passage, it’s totally dependent on this prevalent policy. In other words, the passing pipeline alone does not create security.
Mathematically, it’s regarding a dependent system, which has no resistance. Whereas, when we consider a country source, meaning, one which has a production, then, that turns into a real geopolitical player because the stability of the source does not change, neither with technology, nor with policy.
It constitutes therefore a substance as an energy, which with strategy could produce macropolitics.
It is therefore important for us to understand that, the issue of the Greek EEZ is not only the passage of energy, but actually its produce, and this difference is of a large range value, regarding the geostrategic facts of our country.
The passages are changeble, both for LNG ships and pipelines, but not the sources, because the source is an oasis of energy, and constitutes a milestone. So what we are claiming on behalf of Greece, it’s not the status of a passage, but that of the source of energy.