Bulgaria · Oil imports
Bulgaria: crude oil and fuel imports since 2015
Counted as the country reports it in its energy statistics: crude oil by the country where it was produced, refined products by the country they were last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where they were refined.
In 2020, Bulgaria imported 4.8 million tonnes of crude oil. Its refined-product imports were 1.6 million tonnes, most from Romania (44%), Russia (26%) and Greece (10%).
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2020
- Method
- How this figure is made
Counted as the country reports it in its energy statistics: crude oil by the country where it was produced, refined products by the country they were last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where they were refined.
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, 2020
Calculated100% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.
Share of crude imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026
- Russia
- Iraq
- Egypt
- Saudi Arabia
- Kazakhstan
- Italy
- Other origins
- Origin not published
- No imports reported
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2020
- Method
- How this figure is made
Counted as the country reports it in its energy statistics: crude oil by the country where it was produced, refined products by the country they were last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where they were refined.
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, 2020
Calculated0.3% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.
| Product | Importsmillion tonnes · largest origin · months published |
|---|---|
| Road diesel | Imports:0.75 Mt · Romania 37%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrol | Imports:0.27 Mt · Romania 93%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:0.01 Mt · Romania 75%months: 8 with imports |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:0.16 Mt · Russia 100%months: 11 with imports |
| Fuel oil | Imports:0.06 Mt · Romania 39%months: 11 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:not published |
| LPGshown below | Imports:0.39 Mt · Romania 41%months: 12 with imports |
LPG
In 2020, Bulgaria imported 393 thousand tonnes of lpg, most from Romania (41%), Kazakhstan (21%) and Albania (6%).
0.7% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.
Share of lpg imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026
- Romania
- Kazakhstan
- Russia
- Türkiye
- Egypt
- United States
- Other origins
- Origin not published
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| RomaniaEU | Share:41% | Thousand tonnes:161 | |
| Kazakhstan | Share:21% | Thousand tonnes:82 | |
| Albania | Share:6% | Thousand tonnes:24 | |
| Russia | Share:6% | Thousand tonnes:23 | |
| Egypt | Share:5% | Thousand tonnes:19 | |
| United States | Share:4% | Thousand tonnes:14 | |
| ItalyEU | Share:3% | Thousand tonnes:13 | |
| Algeria | Share:3% | Thousand tonnes:13 | |
| GreeceEU | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:6 | |
| GermanyEU | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:6 | |
| NetherlandsEU | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:5 | |
| Türkiye | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:4 | |
| CzechiaEU | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:4 | |
| BelgiumEU | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:4 | |
| Belarus | Share:0.8% | Thousand tonnes:3 | |
| Switzerland | Share:0.7% | Thousand tonnes:3 | |
| HungaryEU | Share:0.5% | Thousand tonnes:2 | |
| Tunisia | Share:0.3% | Thousand tonnes:1 | |
| Libya | Share:0.3% | Thousand tonnes:1 | |
| Ukraine | Share:0.2% | Thousand tonnes:1 | |
| Serbia | Share:0.1% | Thousand tonnes:1 | |
| Norway | Share:0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| CroatiaEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| North Macedonia | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| Cannot be traced to a named country | 0.7% | 3 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2020
- Method
- How this figure is made
Counted as the country reports it in its energy statistics: crude oil by the country where it was produced, refined products by the country they were last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where they were refined.
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:3.71 Mtmonths: 7 with imports | Refined products:0.65 Mt · Romania 28%months: 7 with imports |
| 2025 | Crude oil:4.84 Mtmonths: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.61 Mt · Romania 29%months: 12 with imports |
| 2024 | Crude oil:6.60 Mtmonths: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.36 Mt · Romania 32%months: 12 with imports |
| 2023 | Crude oil:6.24 Mtmonths: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.43 Mt · Russia 37%months: 12 with imports |
| 2022 | Crude oil:7.10 Mtmonths: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.61 Mt · Russia 44%months: 12 with imports |
| 2021 | Crude oil:4.15 Mtmonths: 11 with imports · 1 reported none | Refined products:1.67 Mt · Romania 39%months: 12 with imports |
| 2020shown below | Crude oil:4.85 Mtmonths: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.64 Mt · Romania 44%months: 12 with imports |
| 2019 | Crude oil:6.99 Mt · Russia 63%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.63 Mt · Romania 50%months: 12 with imports |
| 2018 | Crude oil:5.85 Mt · Russia 69%months: 11 with imports · 1 reported none | Refined products:1.50 Mt · Romania 47%months: 12 with imports |
| 2017 | Crude oil:6.85 Mt · Russia 69%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.85 Mt · Romania 46%months: 12 with imports |
| 2016 | Crude oil:6.19 Mt · Russia 78%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.67 Mt · Romania 46%months: 12 with imports |
| 2015 | Crude oil:6.05 Mt · Russia 93%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:1.62 Mt · Romania 39%months: 12 with imports |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2020
- Method
- How this figure is made
Counted as the country reports it in its energy statistics: crude oil by the country where it was produced, refined products by the country they were last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where they were refined.
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.