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Last Thursday’s announcement in Nicosia that a sizable gas deposit was discovered by US energy giant ExxonMobil in plot 10 of Cyprus’s EEZ is expected to have far-reaching commercial and geostrategic consequences for the island itself and the wider Mediterranean.