MILAN, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The former head of trading atItaly's Eni, Marco Alvera, has left the company after10 years of service, a spokeswoman for the oil major said onWednesday.
The 40-year-old Alvera, who joined Eni in 2005, left Eni onSeptember 30, the spokeswoman told Reuters.
A former director at Italy's biggest utility Enel,Alvera became head of Eni's Trading and Shipping division in2010 at a time when Eni was run by CEO Paolo Scaroni.
In 2013 he took charge of Eni's midstream business unitwhich oversees the group's commodity supply and tradingactivities as well as its commercial LNG portfolio and large gasand power accounts.
Alvera had plans to expand trading at Eni to rival thebiggest trading desks at oil majors BP and Royal DutchShell including boosting presence in the United Stateswhere the shale oil revolution offered new opportunities.
Claudio Descalzi took over as CEO of Eni in May last year. (Reporting by Stephen Jewkes, additional reporting by DmitryZhdannikov; Editing by Louise Heavens)