Visibility matters Al Nuaimi — a chemical engineer by training who moved early into marketing and research — is candid about how uneven access to senior technical roles used to be. "When I began my career, it was far less common to see women across the full energy value chain, particularly in operational, engineering and technical roles," she says on Emirati Women’s Day. The figures she cites suggest meaningful movement since. Across the ADNOC Group, women now hold 26.4 per cent of senior management positions and make up approximately 25 per cent of new UAE National hires, with female representation across the workforce having doubled since 2016 — particularly in engineering, operations and artificial intelligence. Nearly 150 engineers graduated from ADNOC's AI Accelerators Programme in 2025, with Emirati women accounting for more than 40 per cent of that cohort. At ADNOC Gas specifically, approximately 95 per cent of women in technical roles are Emirati. "A young woman cannot aspire to a job she has never seen anyone like her do," Al Nuaimi says. "When young women see others leading plants, managing complex operations, developing new technologies or running major businesses, they can begin to imagine themselves taking the same path." She frames the company's focus accordingly: not simply hiring women, but ensuring they "gain the operational experience, demanding assignments and sponsorship needed to progress into leadership roles." Ruwais LNG will more than double ADNOC Gas's LNG capacity and is being built as the first facility of its kind in the region to run on clean power. ADNOC Gas 5 / 6