The Environmental Engineers Team of the Kuwait Environment Protection Society participated in launching an awareness campaign for the scientific and technical program of the 8th World Petroleum Council Energy Youth Forum 2025, organized by the Ministry of Oil under the patronage of His Excellency Minister Tariq Al-Roumi. Engineer Yousef Alramzi, Vice President and official spokesperson for the team, stated that “Kuwait’s hosting of this forum under the theme ”Empowering the Future: Connecting Youth with Ideas and Knowledge’ confirms that petroleum culture flourishes through the integration of long-standing experience and creative young talent.”.
He considered the forum “a platform for dialogue among the various participating entities and organizations, along with their representatives from national expertise and Kuwaiti youth.” The Vice-Head of the Environmental Engineers Team at the Kuwait Environment Protection Society stated that “team members Eng. Hussein Bourmana, Eng. Adel Alazmi, and Eng. Mai Alqattan participated in the forum as part of the local participation.” He emphasized that “the team’s participation in the 8th World Petroleum Energy Youth Forum 2025 aligns with Kuwait’s New Vision 2035 and the Kuwaiti Action Plan, which prioritizes empowering youth and developing human capital by elevating young national talent and showcasing their skills, capabilities, and potential, in accordance with the Society’s vision of active engagement with the surrounding community regionally and internationally.”.
For his part, Eng. Hussein Bu Rumana, a member of the Environmental Engineers Team, explained that “the team’s annual work program is multifaceted and diverse in its activities, ranging from organizing specialized awareness activities on environmental engineering aspects, to local, regional and international participation, in addition to organizing workshops and lectures on environmental science and engineering, and promoting the study of environmental science and engineering, in addition to its crown jewel activity, which is organizing the annual forum and exhibition for Kuwaiti environmental engineers.”.
For her part, Ms. Mai Alqattan, a member of the team, explained that “the team’s participation in the forum included all the axes, including focusing on empowering youth in four areas: sustainable change, innovation, strategic leadership, and a mentorship program, so that they give young people the opportunity to share their opinions, learn from experiences, and enter into open circles and discussions and dialogues among themselves to develop their soft skills, with the aim of the new generation having an effective role in the future of the energy sector and developing ideas, and how they can convince older generations of new ideas that facilitate many solutions and problems. Moreover, the team participated in the axis and discussion of artificial intelligence and how to use it in the energy sector.”.
In the same context, team member Eng. Adel Alazmi affirmed that “the Environmental Engineers Team believes that young people are the cornerstone of sustainable development and an authentic and active path in decision-making and the future. For this reason, recent periods have witnessed the organization of events and activities that have worked to qualify many young people through specialized training programs to prepare a qualified environmental engineering generation to assume leadership positions and participate in developing the work life system efficiently, as a contribution to supporting the scientific and technical engineering culture among young people and linking it to environmental and professional responsibility.”.
