Ireland · Oil imports
Ireland: 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 2022, Ireland imported 3.0 million tonnes of crude oil, most from the United States (65%), Azerbaijan (18%) and the United Kingdom (5%). Its refined-product imports were 4.7 million tonnes, most from the United Kingdom (64%), the United Arab Emirates (12%) and the Netherlands (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
- 2022
- 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, 2022
CalculatedShare of crude imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026
- Norway
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- Algeria
- Azerbaijan
- Other origins
- Origin not published
Every crude origin, 2022
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Share:65% | Thousand tonnes:1,950 | |
| Azerbaijan | Share:18% | Thousand tonnes:531 | |
| United Kingdom | Share:5% | Thousand tonnes:163 | |
| Canada | Share:3% | Thousand tonnes:91 | |
| Gibraltar | Share:3% | Thousand tonnes:89 | |
| Türkiye | Share:3% | Thousand tonnes:88 | |
| Norway | Share:3% | Thousand tonnes:83 | |
| SwedenEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| PolandEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| South Korea | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| Nigeria | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 |
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
- 2022
- 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, 2022
Calculated0.8% 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:2.40 Mt · United Kingdom 74%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrol | Imports:0.41 Mt · United Kingdom 90%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:1.77 Mt · United Kingdom 46%months: 12 with imports |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:<0.01 Mt · United Kingdom 78%months: 12 with imports |
| Fuel oil | Imports:0.03 Mt · Belgium 39%months: 12 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:<0.01 Mt · United Kingdom 62%months: 12 with imports |
| LPG | Imports:0.05 Mt · Netherlands 42%months: 12 with imports |
Road diesel
In 2022, Ireland imported 2.4 million tonnes of road diesel, most from the United Kingdom (74%), the Netherlands (8%) and the United Arab Emirates (5%).
<0.1% 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
- United Kingdom
- Netherlands
- United States
- Russia
- Belgium
- Sweden
- Other origins
- Origin not published
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Share:74% | Thousand tonnes:1,786 | |
| NetherlandsEU | Share:8% | Thousand tonnes:198 | |
| United Arab Emirates | Share:5% | Thousand tonnes:126 | |
| Russia | Share:5% | Thousand tonnes:116 | |
| India | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:58 | |
| SwedenEU | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:41 | |
| FinlandEU | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:24 | |
| Norway | Share:0.7% | Thousand tonnes:16 | |
| BelgiumEU | Share:0.4% | Thousand tonnes:10 | |
| United States | Share:0.4% | Thousand tonnes:9 | |
| South Korea | Share:0.4% | Thousand tonnes:9 | |
| Saudi Arabia | Share:0.3% | Thousand tonnes:8 | |
| GermanyEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| Switzerland | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| Japan | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| China | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| ItalyEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| Israel | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| Cannot be traced to a named country | <0.1% | 1 |
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
- 2022
- 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:1.55 Mt · United States 82%months: 7 with imports | Refined products:2.41 Mt · United Kingdom 39%months: 7 with imports |
| 2025 | Crude oil:3.12 Mt · United States 69%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:5.83 Mt · Netherlands 34%months: 12 with imports |
| 2024 | Crude oil:1.91 Mt · United States 95%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:5.71 Mt · United Kingdom 30%months: 12 with imports |
| 2023 | Crude oil:2.99 Mt · United States 60%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.92 Mt · United Kingdom 38%months: 12 with imports |
| 2022shown below | Crude oil:2.99 Mt · United States 65%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.67 Mt · United Kingdom 64%months: 12 with imports |
| 2021 | Crude oil:3.02 Mt · United States 55%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.37 Mt · United Kingdom 50%months: 12 with imports |
| 2020 | Crude oil:2.91 Mt · United States 78%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.95 Mt · United Kingdom 72%months: 12 with imports |
| 2019 | Crude oil:2.61 Mt · United States 72%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:5.11 Mt · United Kingdom 56%months: 12 with imports |
| 2018 | Crude oil:2.91 Mt · Norway 47%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.99 Mt · United Kingdom 61%months: 12 with imports |
| 2017 | Crude oil:3.37 Mt · Norway 57%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:5.17 Mt · United Kingdom 76%months: 12 with imports |
| 2016 | Crude oil:3.13 Mt · Norway 84%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.97 Mt · United Kingdom 75%months: 12 with imports |
| 2015 | Crude oil:3.49 Mt · Norway 71%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.71 Mt · United Kingdom 79%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
- 2022
- 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.