Denmark · Oil imports
Denmark: 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 2018, Denmark imported 4.7 million tonnes of crude oil, most from Norway (67%), the United States (17%) and Russia (7%). Its refined-product imports were 5.5 million tonnes, most from Russia (23%), Norway (22%) and Sweden (16%).
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2018
- 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, 2018
Calculated1% 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
- Norway
- United States
- Russia
- Nigeria
- United Kingdom
- Libya
- Other origins
- Origin not published
Every crude origin, 2018
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | Share:67% | Thousand tonnes:3,148 | |
| United States | Share:17% | Thousand tonnes:814 | |
| Russia | Share:7% | Thousand tonnes:351 | |
| NetherlandsEU | Share:3% | Thousand tonnes:145 | |
| Nigeria | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:98 | |
| Libya | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:78 | |
| United Kingdom | Share:0.4% | Thousand tonnes:17 | |
| Cannot be traced to a named country | 1% | 63 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2018
- 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, 2018
Calculated0.6% 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:1.16 Mt · Sweden 35%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrol | Imports:0.42 Mt · Sweden 59%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:0.96 Mt · Russia 31%months: 12 with imports |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:1.22 Mt · Russia 49%months: 12 with imports |
| Fuel oil | Imports:1.74 Mt · Norway 48%months: 12 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:not publishedmonths: 8 not published |
| LPGshown below | Imports:0.02 Mt · United Kingdom 58%months: 11 with imports · 1 reported none |
LPG
In 2018, Denmark imported 24 thousand tonnes of lpg, most from the United Kingdom (58%) and the Netherlands (42%).
Share of lpg imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026
- United Kingdom
- Sweden
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Belgium
- Germany
- Other origins
- Origin not published
- Not published
- No imports reported
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Share:58% | Thousand tonnes:14 | |
| NetherlandsEU | Share:42% | Thousand tonnes:10 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2018
- 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:2.99 Mt · Norway 44%months: 7 with imports | Refined products:2.26 Mt · Sweden 23%months: 7 with imports |
| 2025 | Crude oil:5.25 Mt · United States 46%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:5.01 Mt · Sweden 23%months: 12 with imports |
| 2024 | Crude oil:4.50 Mt · United States 73%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.99 Mt · Netherlands 21%months: 12 with imports |
| 2023 | Crude oil:4.73 Mt · United States 61%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.84 Mt · Sweden 27%months: 12 with imports |
| 2022 | Crude oil:4.46 Mt · United States 45%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:5.45 Mt · Sweden 20%months: 12 with imports |
| 2021 | Crude oil:5.19 Mt · United States 33%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.28 Mt · Sweden 27%months: 12 with imports |
| 2020 | Crude oil:4.67 Mt · United States 34%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:6.55 Mt · Norway 22%months: 12 with imports |
| 2019 | Crude oil:5.03 Mt · Norway 48%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:6.63 Mt · Norway 22%months: 12 with imports |
| 2018shown below | Crude oil:4.71 Mt · Norway 67%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:5.53 Mt · Russia 23%months: 12 with imports |
| 2017 | Crude oil:4.81 Mt · Norway 78%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.97 Mt · Russia 31%months: 12 with imports |
| 2016 | Crude oil:3.84 Mt · Norway 69%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:8.66 Mt · Russia 46%months: 12 with imports |
| 2015 | Crude oil:4.17 Mt · Norway 74%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:9.16 Mt · Russia 48%months: 12 with imports |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2018
- 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.