Bulgheroni joined his father Alejandro in the
Bridas Corporation, in 1965 when he was 22 years old. Bridas founded by the Bulgheroni family in 1948 and by the 1970s one of the largest private firms in the Argentine energy sector. The senior Bulgheroni died in 1985 and left a controlling stake in the firm to Alejandro and his younger brother
Carlos. Bulgheroni obtained, in 1992, some of the first gas exploration concessions granted in
Turkmenistan to a foreign energy company. He was further involved during 1997 in negotiations between Bridas and the ruling
Taliban faction in
Afghanistan to build the
Trans-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline from Turkmenistan to
Pakistan. These negotiations were in competition with those undertaken by
Unocal, and although an agreement with Unocal-led corporation
CentGas was reached, the deal was forfeited in January 1998 in favor of one with Bridas. Instability in Afghanistan delayed construction of the pipeline, however, and following the
United States Invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the Bridas contract was rescinded in favor of the former one with Unocal. In 2006, Bulgheroni indicated interest in Bridas' involvement with the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline project, which continued to be hampered by the
ongoing chaos in the Central Asian nation. In 2010, Bulgheroni sold 50 percent of Bridas to the Chinese state-run CNOOC Group, which was followed by the acquisition of Axion Energy Argentina in 2012, along with
ExxonMobil’s crude-oil refineries and fuel and lubricants trading assets in Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. ==Personal life==