Bulgaria · Oil imports
Bulgaria: crude oil and fuel imports since 2015
Counted by the country the cargo was shipped from, as customs record it. Transit hubs such as the Netherlands therefore appear as sources; for crude oil, the default view counts by the country of production instead.
In 2021, Bulgaria imported 4.2 million tonnes of crude oil, most from Russia (61%), Greece (12%) and Israel (8%). Its refined-product imports were 1.7 million tonnes, most from Russia (40%), Romania (38%) and Greece (8%).
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) - Comext — EU trade since 1988 by CN8 (international trade in goods, detailed data)
- Eurostat Comext — EU trade since 1988 by CN8 (refined products, CN 2710 and 2711)
- Period
- 2021
- Method
- How this figure is made
Counted by the country the cargo was shipped from, as customs record it. Transit hubs such as the Netherlands therefore appear as sources; for crude oil, the default view counts by the country of production instead.
Yearly figures are the sum of the published monthly tonnes over the months with a published figure; shares are each origin’s tonnes over that sum. A month that is not published is left out and listed, never counted as zero, and a month counts as “reported none” only where the zero is confirmed. The part of the published totals the publisher did not attribute to a country is shown as “cannot be traced”. Refined products are seven product families (road diesel, petrol, jet fuel, heating and other gasoil, fuel oil, naphtha, LPG); other products such as bitumen and lubricants are not included.
The chart draws each month’s shares as a 3-month average over the months with figures in each window. A month that is not published is a hatched band labelled “Not published”, and a confirmed zero a plain band labelled “No imports reported”; neither is ever filled in or averaged over.
Crude oil, 2021
CalculatedShare of crude imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026
- Russia
- Kazakhstan
- Egypt
- Iraq
- Libya
- Greece
- Other origins
- Not published
Every crude origin, 2021
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | Share:61% | Thousand tonnes:2,547 | |
| GreeceEU | Share:12% | Thousand tonnes:483 | |
| Israel | Share:8% | Thousand tonnes:328 | |
| Egypt | Share:8% | Thousand tonnes:321 | |
| CroatiaEU | Share:6% | Thousand tonnes:235 | |
| CyprusEU | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:83 | |
| Libya | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:81 | |
| RomaniaEU | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:75 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) - Comext — EU trade since 1988 by CN8 (international trade in goods, detailed data)
- Eurostat Comext — EU trade since 1988 by CN8 (refined products, CN 2710 and 2711)
- Period
- 2021
- Method
- How this figure is made
Counted by the country the cargo was shipped from, as customs record it. Transit hubs such as the Netherlands therefore appear as sources; for crude oil, the default view counts by the country of production instead.
Yearly figures are the sum of the published monthly tonnes over the months with a published figure; shares are each origin’s tonnes over that sum. A month that is not published is left out and listed, never counted as zero, and a month counts as “reported none” only where the zero is confirmed. The part of the published totals the publisher did not attribute to a country is shown as “cannot be traced”. Refined products are seven product families (road diesel, petrol, jet fuel, heating and other gasoil, fuel oil, naphtha, LPG); other products such as bitumen and lubricants are not included.
The chart draws each month’s shares as a 3-month average over the months with figures in each window. A month that is not published is a hatched band labelled “Not published”, and a confirmed zero a plain band labelled “No imports reported”; neither is ever filled in or averaged over.
Refined products, 2021
Calculated3% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.
| Product | Importsmillion tonnes · largest origin · months published |
|---|---|
| Road dieselshown below | Imports:0.77 Mt · Russia 42%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrol | Imports:0.25 Mt · Romania 95%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:0.01 Mt · Romania 70%months: 12 with imports |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:0.27 Mt · Russia 95%months: 12 with imports |
| Fuel oil | Imports:0.01 Mt · Romania 34%months: 12 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:<0.01 Mt · Italy 88%months: 12 with imports |
| LPG | Imports:0.37 Mt · Romania 46%months: 12 with imports |
Road diesel
In 2021, Bulgaria imported 775 thousand tonnes of road diesel, most from Russia (42%), Romania (28%) and Greece (15%).
5% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.
Share of road diesel imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026
- Russia
- Romania
- Greece
- Egypt
- Turkmenistan
- Türkiye
- Other origins
- Origin not published
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | Share:42% | Thousand tonnes:325 | |
| RomaniaEU | Share:28% | Thousand tonnes:215 | |
| GreeceEU | Share:15% | Thousand tonnes:118 | |
| ItalyEU | Share:8% | Thousand tonnes:62 | |
| HungaryEU | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:10 | |
| Türkiye | Share:0.9% | Thousand tonnes:7 | |
| SlovakiaEU | Share:0.2% | Thousand tonnes:2 | |
| CzechiaEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| GermanyEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| SloveniaEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| FranceEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| Cannot be traced to a named country | 5% | 37 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) - Comext — EU trade since 1988 by CN8 (international trade in goods, detailed data)
- Eurostat Comext — EU trade since 1988 by CN8 (refined products, CN 2710 and 2711)
- Period
- 2021
- Method
- How this figure is made
Counted by the country the cargo was shipped from, as customs record it. Transit hubs such as the Netherlands therefore appear as sources; for crude oil, the default view counts by the country of production instead.
Yearly figures are the sum of the published monthly tonnes over the months with a published figure; shares are each origin’s tonnes over that sum. A month that is not published is left out and listed, never counted as zero, and a month counts as “reported none” only where the zero is confirmed. The part of the published totals the publisher did not attribute to a country is shown as “cannot be traced”. Refined products are seven product families (road diesel, petrol, jet fuel, heating and other gasoil, fuel oil, naphtha, LPG); other products such as bitumen and lubricants are not included.
The chart draws each month’s shares as a 3-month average over the months with figures in each window. A month that is not published is a hatched band labelled “Not published”, and a confirmed zero a plain band labelled “No imports reported”; neither is ever filled in or averaged over.
Year by year
CalculatedSelect a year to see its origins above.
| Year | Crude oilmillion tonnes · largest origin · months published | Refined productsmillion tonnes, seven product families · largest origin · months published |
|---|---|---|
| January–July 2026 | Crude oil:3.64 Mt · Kazakhstan 35%months: 7 with imports | Refined products:0.61 Mt · Romania 30%months: 7 with imports |
| 2025 | Crude oil:4.85 Mt · Kazakhstan 36%months: 11 with imports | Refined products:1.59 Mt · Romania 29%months: 12 with imports |
| 2024 | Crude oil:6.63 Mt · Kazakhstan 32%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.38 Mt · Romania 30%months: 12 with imports |
| 2023 | Crude oil:6.25 Mt · Russia 89%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.44 Mt · Russia 42%months: 12 with imports |
| 2022 | Crude oil:7.11 Mt · Russia 85%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.54 Mt · Russia 51%months: 12 with imports |
| 2021shown below | Crude oil:4.15 Mt · Russia 61%months: 11 with imports | Refined products:1.68 Mt · Russia 40%months: 12 with imports |
| 2020 | Crude oil:4.86 Mt · Russia 62%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.69 Mt · Romania 43%months: 12 with imports |
| 2019 | Crude oil:6.84 Mt · Russia 65%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.56 Mt · Romania 48%months: 12 with imports |
| 2018 | Crude oil:5.86 Mt · Russia 69%months: 11 with imports | Refined products:1.47 Mt · Romania 48%months: 12 with imports |
| 2017 | Crude oil:6.86 Mt · Russia 68%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.85 Mt · Romania 46%months: 12 with imports |
| 2016 | Crude oil:6.28 Mt · Russia 79%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.68 Mt · Romania 48%months: 12 with imports |
| 2015 | Crude oil:6.02 Mt · Russia 84%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.69 Mt · Romania 37%months: 12 with imports |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) - Comext — EU trade since 1988 by CN8 (international trade in goods, detailed data)
- Eurostat Comext — EU trade since 1988 by CN8 (refined products, CN 2710 and 2711)
- Period
- 2021
- Method
- How this figure is made
Counted by the country the cargo was shipped from, as customs record it. Transit hubs such as the Netherlands therefore appear as sources; for crude oil, the default view counts by the country of production instead.
Yearly figures are the sum of the published monthly tonnes over the months with a published figure; shares are each origin’s tonnes over that sum. A month that is not published is left out and listed, never counted as zero, and a month counts as “reported none” only where the zero is confirmed. The part of the published totals the publisher did not attribute to a country is shown as “cannot be traced”. Refined products are seven product families (road diesel, petrol, jet fuel, heating and other gasoil, fuel oil, naphtha, LPG); other products such as bitumen and lubricants are not included.
The chart draws each month’s shares as a 3-month average over the months with figures in each window. A month that is not published is a hatched band labelled “Not published”, and a confirmed zero a plain band labelled “No imports reported”; neither is ever filled in or averaged over.