OREANDA-NEWS. April 16, 2012. Reliance Industries Ltd. plans to forge strategic partnership in petrochem and oil sectors with the Russian region of Tatarstan.

RIL and Tatarstan have agreed to set up a joint working group of specialists to develop strategic partnership in petrochemical and oil refining sectors, specially in crude oil refining.

The agreement was reached during the visit of a high-profile delegation led by Tatarstan’s President Rustam Minnikhanov to Jamnagar in Gujarat on March 22.

The visit was aimed at getting on-the-spot information about the manufacturing processes and studying the advanced oil refining technologies launched by the RIL.