France · Oil imports
France: 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 2016, France imported 54.2 million tonnes of crude oil, most from Saudi Arabia (15%), Kazakhstan (15%) and Nigeria (11%). Its refined-product imports were 35.2 million tonnes, most from Russia (18%), the Netherlands (13%) and the United States (12%).
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2016
- 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, 2016
Calculated0.8% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.
Share of crude imports by origin, January 2015 to June 2026
- Kazakhstan
- United States
- Nigeria
- Algeria
- Saudi Arabia
- Norway
- Other origins
- Origin not published
Every crude origin, 2016
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | Share:15% | Thousand tonnes:8,334 | |
| Kazakhstan | Share:15% | Thousand tonnes:7,945 | |
| Nigeria | Share:11% | Thousand tonnes:5,830 | |
| Russia | Share:10% | Thousand tonnes:5,625 | |
| Norway | Share:9% | Thousand tonnes:4,631 | |
| Iran | Share:8% | Thousand tonnes:4,469 | |
| Algeria | Share:8% | Thousand tonnes:4,163 | |
| Angola | Share:6% | Thousand tonnes:3,107 | |
| Azerbaijan | Share:6% | Thousand tonnes:3,041 | |
| Libya | Share:3% | Thousand tonnes:1,475 | |
| United Kingdom | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:1,299 | |
| Mexico | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:1,127 | |
| Iraq | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:675 | |
| United Arab Emirates | Share:0.6% | Thousand tonnes:338 | |
| United States | Share:0.5% | Thousand tonnes:288 | |
| ItalyEU | Share:0.5% | Thousand tonnes:264 | |
| Gabon | Share:0.4% | Thousand tonnes:243 | |
| Kuwait | Share:0.4% | Thousand tonnes:219 | |
| Brazil | Share:0.3% | Thousand tonnes:137 | |
| Equatorial Guinea | Share:0.2% | Thousand tonnes:134 | |
| Egypt | Share:0.2% | Thousand tonnes:130 | |
| Tunisia | Share:0.2% | Thousand tonnes:117 | |
| Cameroon | Share:0.2% | Thousand tonnes:90 | |
| Turkmenistan | Share:0.1% | Thousand tonnes:78 | |
| Colombia | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:30 | |
| Cannot be traced to a named country | 0.8% | 449 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2016
- 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, 2016
Calculated2% 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:21.58 Mt · Russia 22%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrol | Imports:1.06 Mt · Netherlands 67%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:4.26 Mt · United Arab Emirates 30%months: 12 with imports |
| Heating and other gasoilshown below | Imports:not publishedmonths: 12 not published |
| Fuel oil | Imports:3.49 Mt · Netherlands 38%months: 12 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:1.81 Mt · Russia 17%months: 12 with imports |
| LPG | Imports:3.01 Mt · Algeria 39%months: 12 with imports |
Heating and other gasoil
Heating and other gasoil import tonnes for France are not published for 2016.
Share of heating and other gasoil imports by origin, March 2020 to June 2026
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Russia
- United States
- Germany
- Other origins
- Origin not published
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2016
- 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–June 2026 | Crude oil:22.67 Mt · United States 28%months: 6 with imports | Refined products:13.83 Mt · United States 24%months: 6 with imports |
| 2025 | Crude oil:45.64 Mt · United States 22%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:30.32 Mt · Saudi Arabia 16%months: 12 with imports |
| 2024 | Crude oil:44.58 Mt · United States 23%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:34.69 Mt · United States 12%months: 12 with imports |
| 2023 | Crude oil:45.51 Mt · United States 17%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:33.51 Mt · Belgium 13%months: 12 with imports |
| 2022 | Crude oil:40.82 Mt · United States 15%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:37.10 Mt · Russia 18%months: 12 with imports |
| 2021 | Crude oil:33.83 Mt · Kazakhstan 13%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:40.50 Mt · Russia 20%months: 12 with imports |
| 2020 | Crude oil:33.08 Mt · Kazakhstan 16%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:39.74 Mt · Russia 18%months: 12 with imports |
| 2019 | Crude oil:48.34 Mt · Saudi Arabia 15%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:39.88 Mt · Russia 14%months: 12 with imports |
| 2018 | Crude oil:52.55 Mt · Kazakhstan 15%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:38.06 Mt · Russia 15%months: 12 with imports |
| 2017 | Crude oil:56.88 Mt · Kazakhstan 16%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:36.56 Mt · Russia 15%months: 12 with imports |
| 2016shown below | Crude oil:54.24 Mt · Saudi Arabia 15%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:35.20 Mt · Russia 18%months: 12 with imports |
| 2015 | Crude oil:56.74 Mt · Saudi Arabia 19%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:36.89 Mt · Russia 19%months: 12 with imports |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2016
- 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.