KUWAIT, Dec 9 (KUNA) -- Two Kuwaiti petrochemicals industry officials have been ranked amongst the Middle East's top 50 most influential downstream industry personalities in 2020.

Mutlaq Al-Azmi, CEO of Petrochemical Industries Company, a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, was ranked 19, while Deputy CEO Nadia Al-Hajji was ranked 35 on the 2020 PRME Power 50, compiled by Refining and Petrochemicals Middle East magazine.

In a statement, the company said that the magazine reported in its December edition, Al-Azmi's career since his graduation as an industrial engineer from the University of Miami, Florida, USA, to join the Kuwait National Petroleum Company in 1989 and gain more than 30 years of experience in the refining industry and managing refineries in Kuwait.

It also reviewed Al-Hajji's career, which she began as a process engineer at the Kuwait National Petroleum Company, after which she rose to several positions, including chief operations engineer and head of the clean fuel project design team in addition to the new Al-Zour refinery, as she held many positions in the oil companies of Kuwait National Petroleum Company for 28 years