Antonio Brufau Niubó (born 12 March 1948) is the CEO and Chairman of the multinational oil and gas company

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, a role he has been in since 2004.

Career

After education, Brufau worked in

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where he became a partner and a director of auditing. In 1988, he joined

La Caixa La Caixa (), also known as the "La Caixa" Foundation (), is a not-for-profit banking foundation based in Spain, with its headquarters in Barcelona since March 2025. Originally a savings bank (''caja''), it reorganized in the 2000s and 2010s: I ...

, as deputy general manager and head industrial entity. Within this capacity, along with then President Josep Vilarasau and Isidre Fainé, he assisted in the amalgamation of the Pension Fund of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands and

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. In 1994, on behalf of La Caixa, he became president of Port Aventura. In July 1997, he was appointed the president of the

natural gas Natural gas (also fossil gas, methane gas, and gas) is a naturally occurring compound of gaseous hydrocarbons, primarily methane (95%), small amounts of higher alkanes, and traces of carbon dioxide and nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and helium ...

division at Repsol, a post he held until 2004. From 1996 to 2004, Brufau was a member of the Board of Directors of Repsol. In July 2002, he was appointed president of Circulo de Economía de Barcelona, a position that he held until July 2005. In 2004, he was appointed CEO of

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YPF. Since his appointment at Repsol, the company has revamped its organizational structure and set the priorities for growth in upstream growth, downstream growth and

liquefied natural gas Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport. It takes up about 1/600th the volume o ...

. In addition to his roles at Repsol, Brufau is the vice chairman of Gas Natural Fenosa. In April 2021 Spanish High Court placed Brufau and Isidre Fainé, former chairman of

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, under formal investigation. The court is investigating whether Repsol and Caixabank hired a security firm belonging to former police chief José Manuel Villarejo, to spy on a business competitor.

Awards

Brufau was awarded the 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year award by the Federation of Spanish Chambers of Commerce in Europe (FEDECOM) in recognition of his stewardship of Repsol's increasing activity outside its country of origin.

Education and personal details

Brufau has a degree in Economics from the

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and an MA in Economics from IESE Business School - Universidad de Navarra. He was the only Spanish member in the Executive Committee of the

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until December 2005.

References

External links

(Repsol profile)(Businessweek profile)
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