dubai kuwait replace oil finance defense minister cabinet reshuffle monday state news agency kuna report bakhit al-rashidi appoint new oil minister opec member state nayef falah al-hajraf name new finance minister kuna say cite royal decree sheikh nasser sabah al-ahmad son rule emir sheikh sabah al-ahmad al-jaber al-sabah appoint new minister defense previous cabinet resign oct. 30 information minister question parliament face no-confidence vote allege violations budgetary legislative rule mohammed nasser al-jabri name new minister major oil producer old legislature among gulf arab state experience frequent cabinet reshuffle previous government form february rashidi replace essam al-marzouq oil minister chief executive kuwait petroleum international kpi international downstream subsidiary state-run kuwait petroleum corp. immediate announcement kpi post past kuwaiti minister resign position corporate executives take government post rashidi engineer background also former executive state refiner kuwait national petroleum co. hajraf replace anas al-saleh finance minister since early 2014. hajraf previously chairman board commissioners capital market authority securities regulator also serve act finance minister saleh name deputy prime minister state minister cabinet affairs kuwait replace oil finance minister cabinet reshuffle