"A joint delegation will visit Qatar on July 7 to discuss possibilities of setting up a mega petrochemical plant in that country," GAIL Chairman and Managing Director U D Choubey said on the sidelines of the 19th World Petroleum Congress here.
Reliance and GAIL had on December 4, 2007 signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly set up a mega gas-based petrochemical plant.
They had initially identified 10 countries, including Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Vietnam, Australia, South Africa, Angola, Mexico, Russia and Former Soviet Union for exploring possibilities of setting up to 2 million tonnes chemical plant.
"We have now zeroed in on Qatar, Iran, Algeria, Nigeria and Russia," Choubey said.
"We are looking at countries that can provide natural gas as feedstock for the unit."
Petrochemical business, that contributed 32 per cent to Gail's profit in 2007-08, will add up to 40 per cent in this year's profits.
"Petrochemical is our second most important business after natural gas. We are raising capacity of our Pata petrochemical plant to 4,40,000 tonnes in next six months (from 410,000 tonnes currently) and want to set up two mega units