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Bio
Ignazio Arces is the Head of Eni Refining, Industrial Services and Licensing, Eni is a multinational energy company. He also is the CEO of Refinery at Milazzo a Joint Venture Eni-Kuwait Petroleum Italia.
Before this tenure he was the Head of Project Development and R&D Deployment of Energy Evolution Division at Eni.
He also has been the CEO of Gela’s Refinery S.p.A. (A 100% Eni Company) from May 2018 until September 2020 responsible for the performance of the company, as dictated by the board’s overall strategy reporting to the board.
In 2019, he leaded the start-up and success of the Gela’s bio refinery converting an old industrial site; the bio-refinery produces Hydro Vegetable Oil (HVO) for Diesel blending.
In September 2020, he left the Company to join Adnoc Refining in UAE (as Eni's Secondee) as the Vice President of Operations/Site Head of Ruwais West Refinery (a 450 kbpd Oil Refinery), until May 2021.
Prior to his tenure at Gela’s Refinery S.p.A. , he was the Refinery Manager at “Refinery at Milazzo S.c.p.A.” a joint venture Eni-Kuwait Petroleum Italia.
He was in charge of supervising and coordinating all activities at the oil refinery.
As the Refinery Manager, he was the leader giving directions to all the workers and conducting the safety training, monitoring every operation to make sure that environment standards, government directives and safety requirements were followed, monitoring all costs, setting the company targets/budget and finally ensuring that profits were maintained.
Earlier in his professional career, Ignazio was the Senior Technical Manager in Livorno’s Refinery and the Operation Manager for the West Plants in Sannazzaro’s Refinery.
Ignazio’s professional experience also includes working as process engineer and researcher in electric power systems.
Ignazio received a MS in Electrical Engineering from Palermo University in 1996, later He earned an Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation, and Technology from MIT Sloan.
From 1997 to present, he is member in good standing of the Italian Society of Professional Engineers currently licensed to practice in Italy and throughout the European Union.
Since 1992, Ignazio is a Loyal Member of AEIT - Italian Association of Electrical, Electronics, Automation, Information and Communication Technology.
