According to the company officials, the Spanish wind turbine manufacturer, Gamesa, won a EUR200mn ($290.1 million) contract from Tunisia's Societe Tunisienne de L'Electricite et du Gaz (STEG) to supply 91 wind turbines to the Metline and Kchabta wind farms, located in the Bizerte region with a total capacity of 120 megawatts.  (more)

Sama Dubai, the Dubai Holding real estate developer, has begun work on Tunisia's biggest investment project, a $25 billion Mediterranean Gate project expected to create 350,000 jobs.  (more)

According to Airbus executive, the European planemaker will set up a components factory in Tunisia as part of an expanded restructuring plan targeting $1.4 billion of extra cuts spread across parent EADS.  (more)

According to last issued privatization program in June 2008, the Tunisian government should speed up the privatization process of two major state owned companies: the cement company "Société Cimenterie de Bizerte (SCB)" and the Oil distributing company "Société Nationale de Distribution de pétrole(SNDP)".  (more)

According to news so far released, Italcementi has signed recently an agreement with the Libyan authorities to build a cement plant in partnership the Libyan Mining Company.  (more)

According to Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif Al Islam, Libya is considering the signature of a free trade agreement with the European Union in the coming next months.  (more)

The French 'Alstom' has announced the signing of a contract with the Tunisian gas and electricity company (STEG), for the building of a totally integrated electricity power plant in Ghannouch, Gabès.  (more)

An oil search permit was granted recently to the British company ?GB Petroleum PLC?. The two- year permit which covers an area of some 704 square kilometres is located in the Tataouine Governorate in southern Tunisia.  (more)

Canadian oil firm Verenex Energy has made a new oil discovery in its A47 exploration and production concession in the Ghadames basin, about 250km southwest of Tripoli.  (more)

The Kuwaiti Global Investment House (GIH) has announced recently that it has signed an agreement with Bina Holding of Tunisia to jointly develop Carthage Cement, a Greenfield cement plant with capacity of 2 MTPA along with a ready mix and brick plant.  (more)