Greece · Oil imports
Greece: 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 2019, Greece imported 22.8 million tonnes of crude oil, most from Iraq (49%), Kazakhstan (15%) and Russia (10%). Its refined-product imports were 4.7 million tonnes, most from Spain (17%), Russia (13%) and Israel (12%).
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2019
- 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, 2019
CalculatedShare of crude imports by origin, January 2015 to June 2026
- Iraq
- Libya
- Kazakhstan
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Egypt
- Other origins
- Origin not published
Every crude origin, 2019
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iraq | Share:49% | Thousand tonnes:11,287 | |
| Kazakhstan | Share:15% | Thousand tonnes:3,411 | |
| Russia | Share:10% | Thousand tonnes:2,174 | |
| Saudi Arabia | Share:7% | Thousand tonnes:1,631 | |
| Egypt | Share:6% | Thousand tonnes:1,472 | |
| Libya | Share:5% | Thousand tonnes:1,228 | |
| Azerbaijan | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:512 | |
| United States | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:506 | |
| Algeria | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:259 | |
| United Arab Emirates | Share:0.4% | Thousand tonnes:85 | |
| Gabon | Share:0.3% | Thousand tonnes:79 | |
| United Kingdom | Share:0.3% | Thousand tonnes:78 | |
| Turkmenistan | Share:0.3% | Thousand tonnes:58 | |
| Venezuela | Share:0.2% | Thousand tonnes:50 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2019
- 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, 2019
Calculated3% 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:1.26 Mt · Russia 36%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrol | Imports:0.63 Mt · Bulgaria 33%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuelshown below | Imports:0.15 Mt · Libya 34%months: 5 with imports · 7 reported none |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:0.25 Mt · Russia 49%months: 10 with imports · 2 not published |
| Fuel oil | Imports:2.33 Mt · Spain 33%months: 12 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:none importedmonths: 12 reported none |
| LPG | Imports:0.07 Mt · Egypt 27%months: 12 with imports |
Jet fuel
In 2019, Greece imported 149 thousand tonnes of jet fuel, most from Libya (34%), Algeria (22%) and Egypt (20%).
Share of jet fuel imports by origin, May 2015 to June 2026
- Egypt
- Spain
- Netherlands
- Saudi Arabia
- Libya
- India
- Other origins
- Origin not published
- Not published
- No imports reported
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Libya | Share:34% | Thousand tonnes:50 | |
| Algeria | Share:22% | Thousand tonnes:33 | |
| Egypt | Share:20% | Thousand tonnes:30 | |
| Oman | Share:12% | Thousand tonnes:18 | |
| SpainEU | Share:11% | Thousand tonnes:16 | |
| Albania | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:2 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2019
- 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:11.90 Mt · Iraq 27%months: 6 with imports | Refined products:1.00 Mt · Malta 20%months: 6 with imports |
| 2025 | Crude oil:21.02 Mt · Iraq 35%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.21 Mt · Malta 16%months: 12 with imports |
| 2024 | Crude oil:23.95 Mt · Iraq 33%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:2.98 Mt · Malta 23%months: 12 with imports |
| 2023 | Crude oil:23.33 Mt · Iraq 41%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.74 Mt · Israel 12%months: 12 with imports |
| 2022 | Crude oil:21.93 Mt · Iraq 47%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.96 Mt · Russia 19%months: 12 with imports |
| 2021 | Crude oil:23.41 Mt · Iraq 44%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.23 Mt · Spain 13%months: 12 with imports |
| 2020 | Crude oil:22.77 Mt · Iraq 36%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.65 Mt · Spain 17%months: 12 with imports |
| 2019shown below | Crude oil:22.83 Mt · Iraq 49%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.69 Mt · Spain 17%months: 12 with imports |
| 2018 | Crude oil:24.33 Mt · Iraq 45%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.15 Mt · Spain 18%months: 12 with imports |
| 2017 | Crude oil:23.67 Mt · Iraq 43%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.47 Mt · Israel 18%months: 12 with imports |
| 2016 | Crude oil:23.46 Mt · Iraq 41%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.51 Mt · Israel 11%months: 12 with imports |
| 2015 | Crude oil:22.09 Mt · Iraq 45%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.47 Mt · Israel 14%months: 12 with imports |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2019
- 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.