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Italy · Oil imports

Italy: 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, Italy imported 63.1 million tonnes of crude oil, most from Iraq (20%), Azerbaijan (17%) and Russia (14%). Its refined-product imports were 12.4 million tonnes, most from Saudi Arabia (15%), Greece (12%) and Algeria (10%).

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Source & method
Source
  • Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
Every source, with links and licences
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

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0.7% 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

3-month average of monthly shares, over the months with figures in each window
Sep 2020Jun 20260%25%50%75%100%Azerbaijan 12.8%Libya 24.2%Kazakhstan 17.8%Other origins 36.8%
  • Azerbaijan
  • Libya
  • Iraq
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Russia
  • Kazakhstan
  • Other origins
  • Origin not published

Every crude origin, 2019

Crude oil imports of Italy in 2019 by origin (by country of production).
IraqShare:20%Thousand tonnes:12,616
AzerbaijanShare:17%Thousand tonnes:10,943
RussiaShare:14%Thousand tonnes:9,094
LibyaShare:12%Thousand tonnes:7,785
Saudi ArabiaShare:8%Thousand tonnes:4,975
KazakhstanShare:6%Thousand tonnes:4,087
NigeriaShare:5%Thousand tonnes:3,412
United StatesShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,415
AlgeriaShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,293
AngolaShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,245
EgyptShare:2%Thousand tonnes:989
CameroonShare:2%Thousand tonnes:950
NorwayShare:1%Thousand tonnes:915
CanadaShare:1%Thousand tonnes:702
United KingdomShare:1%Thousand tonnes:665
VenezuelaShare:0.7%Thousand tonnes:437
TunisiaShare:0.7%Thousand tonnes:430
GabonShare:0.6%Thousand tonnes:389
CongoShare:0.2%Thousand tonnes:123
MexicoShare:0.1%Thousand tonnes:89
Equatorial GuineaShare:0.1%Thousand tonnes:84
GreeceEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:56
Cannot be traced to a named country0.7%451
Source & method
Source
  • Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
Every source, with links and licences
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

Calculated

1% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.

Refined product imports by product family: million tonnes, largest origin and months published.
Road dieselImports:4.93 Mt · Saudi Arabia 22%months: 12 with imports
Petrolshown belowImports:0.37 Mt · Greece 18%months: 12 with imports
Jet fuelImports:2.56 Mt · Saudi Arabia 29%months: 12 with imports
Heating and other gasoilImports:0.20 Mt · France 33%months: 6 with imports · 6 not published
Fuel oilImports:1.01 Mt · Russia 24%months: 12 with imports
NaphthaImports:0.93 Mt · Spain 45%months: 12 with imports
LPGImports:2.40 Mt · Algeria 45%months: 12 with imports

Petrol

In 2019, Italy imported 370 thousand tonnes of petrol, most from Greece (18%), the United Kingdom (14%) and the Netherlands (11%).

Share of petrol imports by origin, January 2015 to June 2026

3-month average of monthly shares, over the months with figures in each window
Sep 2020Jun 20260%25%50%75%100%Greece 56.4%Spain 43.6%
  • Greece
  • Türkiye
  • Austria
  • Spain
  • Israel
  • France
  • Other origins
  • Origin not published
Petrol imports of Italy in 2019 by origin (by the country it was last shipped from, as energy statistics report it).
GreeceEUShare:18%Thousand tonnes:65
United KingdomShare:14%Thousand tonnes:51
NetherlandsEUShare:11%Thousand tonnes:40
SloveniaEUShare:11%Thousand tonnes:39
TürkiyeShare:11%Thousand tonnes:39
CroatiaEUShare:10%Thousand tonnes:36
BulgariaEUShare:8%Thousand tonnes:30
FranceEUShare:8%Thousand tonnes:30
IsraelShare:6%Thousand tonnes:24
AustriaEUShare:2%Thousand tonnes:6
AlgeriaShare:1%Thousand tonnes:5
UkraineShare:0.8%Thousand tonnes:3
SerbiaShare:0.5%Thousand tonnes:2
Source & method
Source
  • Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
Every source, with links and licences
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

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Select a year to see its origins above.

Crude oil and refined product imports by year: million tonnes, largest origin and months published. Select a year for its origins.
January–June 2026Crude oil:27.96 Mt · Libya 26%months: 6 with importsRefined products:6.07 Mt · Saudi Arabia 31%months: 6 with imports
2025Crude oil:54.75 Mt · Libya 25%months: 12 with importsRefined products:12.28 Mt · Saudi Arabia 22%months: 12 with imports
2024Crude oil:56.05 Mt · Libya 21%months: 12 with importsRefined products:12.94 Mt · Saudi Arabia 14%months: 12 with imports
2023Crude oil:61.21 Mt · Azerbaijan 18%months: 12 with importsRefined products:11.61 Mt · Saudi Arabia 13%months: 12 with imports
2022Crude oil:62.42 Mt · Russia 19%months: 12 with importsRefined products:11.65 Mt · Saudi Arabia 13%months: 12 with imports
2021Crude oil:56.72 Mt · Azerbaijan 22%months: 12 with importsRefined products:10.22 Mt · Egypt 13%months: 12 with imports
2020Crude oil:50.36 Mt · Azerbaijan 20%months: 12 with importsRefined products:10.31 Mt · Saudi Arabia 16%months: 12 with imports
2019shown belowCrude oil:63.15 Mt · Iraq 20%months: 12 with importsRefined products:12.39 Mt · Saudi Arabia 15%months: 12 with imports
2018Crude oil:62.05 Mt · Azerbaijan 19%months: 12 with importsRefined products:14.44 Mt · Saudi Arabia 17%months: 12 with imports
2017Crude oil:66.34 Mt · Azerbaijan 19%months: 12 with importsRefined products:13.39 Mt · Saudi Arabia 16%months: 12 with imports
2016Crude oil:60.88 Mt · Iraq 20%months: 12 with importsRefined products:12.33 Mt · Algeria 14%months: 12 with imports
2015Crude oil:62.53 Mt · Iraq 18%months: 12 with importsRefined products:9.23 Mt · Saudi Arabia 18%months: 12 with imports
Source & method
Source
  • Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
Every source, with links and licences
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.