Palma,
I have heard that HBJ is getting an A330-200, don't know if it is true or not, I thought you wanted to know.
WRT to the B777-200ER, Qatar Airways has been looking at it and the A340-500 for a while. They need extra capacity to LHR and Asia and they also need an aircraft with the range to do DOH-NYC non-stop in 2004.
The A340-500 has long been rumoured as the winner both through my contacts within Airbus, and from discussing it with QR staff like "Tom Cruise" on this forum. In my mind it was the logical choice since the amir is getting one and QR are an all-airbus fleet. Riscy, who is more knowledgable than me in the subject has said that Boeing and GE are giving them a better offer over AI/RR so the MoU could be true.
According to "Riscy" the order would be for 3 firm + 2 options which could be revised to 6 firm + 2 options at a later stage so 2 B777's seems too small a number.