Ireland · Oil imports
Ireland: 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 2025, Ireland imported 3.0 million tonnes of crude oil, most from the United States (62%), Azerbaijan (18%) and Algeria (14%). Its refined-product imports were 4.7 million tonnes, most from the United Kingdom (57%), the Netherlands (26%) and Belgium (13%).
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2025
- 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, 2025
CalculatedShare of crude imports by origin, January 2015 to June 2026
- United States
- Norway
- Canada
- United Kingdom
- Nigeria
- Azerbaijan
- Other origins
- Origin not published
- No imports reported
Every crude origin, 2025
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Share:62% | Thousand tonnes:1,849 | |
| Azerbaijan | Share:18% | Thousand tonnes:532 | |
| Algeria | Share:14% | Thousand tonnes:424 | |
| SpainEU | Share:5% | Thousand tonnes:154 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2025
- 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, 2025
Calculated| Product | Importsmillion tonnes · largest origin · months published |
|---|---|
| Road diesel | Imports:2.40 Mt · United Kingdom 36%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrol | Imports:0.47 Mt · United Kingdom 58%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:1.40 Mt · United Kingdom 92%months: 12 with imports |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:0.16 Mt · United Kingdom 100%months: 12 with imports |
| Fuel oilshown below | Imports:0.09 Mt · Netherlands 70%months: 6 with imports · 4 reported none · 2 not published |
| Naphtha | Imports:none importedmonths: 12 reported none |
| LPG | Imports:0.13 Mt · United Kingdom 50%months: 12 with imports |
Fuel oil
In 2025, Ireland imported 94 thousand tonnes of fuel oil in the six months with published figures, most from the Netherlands (70%) and Sweden (30%).
Tonnes for February and March 2025 are not published; they are left out, not counted as zero.
Share of fuel oil imports by origin, February 2015 to March 2026
- United Kingdom
- Belgium
- Netherlands
- Denmark
- Sweden
- France
- Other origins
- Origin not published
- Not published
- No imports reported
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| NetherlandsEU | Share:70% | Thousand tonnes:66 | |
| SwedenEU | Share:30% | Thousand tonnes:28 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2025
- 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:1.43 Mt · United States 75%months: 6 with imports | Refined products:2.39 Mt · United Kingdom 55%months: 6 with imports |
| 2025shown below | Crude oil:2.96 Mt · United States 62%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.66 Mt · United Kingdom 57%months: 12 with imports |
| 2024 | Crude oil:2.00 Mt · United States 87%months: 10 with imports · 2 reported none | Refined products:5.70 Mt · United Kingdom 50%months: 12 with imports |
| 2023 | Crude oil:2.85 Mt · United States 65%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.80 Mt · United Kingdom 45%months: 12 with imports |
| 2022 | Crude oil:3.13 Mt · United States 62%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.87 Mt · United Kingdom 81%months: 12 with imports |
| 2021 | Crude oil:3.05 Mt · United States 57%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.38 Mt · United Kingdom 58%months: 12 with imports |
| 2020 | Crude oil:3.10 Mt · United States 70%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.47 Mt · United Kingdom 65%months: 12 with imports |
| 2019 | Crude oil:2.60 Mt · United States 69%months: 11 with imports · 1 reported none | Refined products:5.43 Mt · United Kingdom 60%months: 12 with imports |
| 2018 | Crude oil:2.98 Mt · Norway 45%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:5.19 Mt · United Kingdom 59%months: 12 with imports |
| 2017 | Crude oil:3.29 Mt · Norway 59%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:5.20 Mt · United Kingdom 65%months: 12 with imports |
| 2016 | Crude oil:3.20 Mt · Norway 81%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.73 Mt · United Kingdom 69%months: 12 with imports |
| 2015 | Crude oil:3.64 Mt · Norway 71%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:4.52 Mt · United Kingdom 76%months: 12 with imports |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2025
- 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.