ExxonMobil has been surveying for seven days for the promising natural gas deposits off Crete.

In statements after meeting his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Cairo on Sunday, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias accused Turkey of creating a "monstrosity" in the Turkish-Libyan memorandum of 2019, by blackmailing and exerting pressure on Libyan officials.
According to a Greek foreign ministry tweet, Dendias was welcomed by Shoukry, with whom he discussed the long-standing strategic relations between Greece and Egypt, as well as the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean and Libya.

The first drilling is expected to take place at the land concession of Ioannina and the sea "block 2" located Northwest of Corfu, which will give the first picture of the size of the natural gas deposits in Greece.