Malta
Road diesel, June 2026 — crude behind it: 6% United States · 6% Mexico · 5% Libya · 57% cannot be traced. Up to 59% of that crude may have passed through the Strait of Hormuz.
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- EIA, IEA and terminal operators (cited per row) — Fuel Origin Hormuz route classification and country bounds, methodology v1.0
- Period
- June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
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Malta: road diesel available in June 2026
Everything refined in the country plus everything imported.
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Where that fuel came from
- 3
The crude behind Malta's road diesel
Assumptions
- Exports are assumed to be drawn from every source in proportion to its share of supply.
- Each country's refineries are assumed to run on its crude-import mix over the latest three months.
- The chain looks back one country only; fuel re-exported through a supplier is not followed further.
- The crude origin is the producing country the statistics report, not the loading terminal, so the Hormuz answer is a range wherever a producer loads both inside and outside the Persian Gulf.
In June 2026, most road diesel available in Malta came from Kuwait (57%), followed by Spain (43%).
The crude behind that fuel cannot be traced: we hold no crude import statistics for Kuwait.
Taken together, an estimated 6% of the crude behind Malta's road diesel came from the United States, 6% from Mexico; 57% cannot be traced.
The largest untraced part (57%) is there because we hold no crude import statistics for Kuwait.
Up to 58% of the crude behind Malta's road diesel is estimated to have passed through the Strait of Hormuz, a significant dependence judged on the upper bound. No midpoint is published: crude that cannot be traced is counted as anything from none to all of it.
This is an estimate, not a reported figure: it assumes exports are drawn proportionally from every source and that each country's refineries run on its crude-import mix, and it looks back only one country.
Pump prices and tax for Malta → latest weekly price €1.21 per litre (diesel, week of 21 Sep 2026)
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Crude origins
CalculatedNo crude refineries (Eurostat energy statistics).
Malta reported no crude oil imports in June 2026.
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
Product origins
CalculatedRoad diesel imports, June 2026: Kuwait 57%, Spain 43%.
Share of road diesel imports by origin, to June 2026
- Kuwait
- Spain
Share of road diesel imports, June 2026
Share of road diesel imports, June 2026: all origins
| Country of origin | Share | Tonnes |
|---|---|---|
| Kuwait | 57% | 9,444 |
| Spain | 43% | 7,207 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
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Stocks & days of cover
Official103 days of emergency stock cover in June 2026.
Closing stocks: 253,661 tonnes, +14.7% against the 12-month average.
Closing stocks, to June 2026
- Closing stocks
- 12-month average
Days of cover, to June 2026
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Emergency oil stocks in days equivalent - monthly data
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Stock levels for oil products - monthly data
- Period
- June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
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Which method the member state used
- Stock calculation method: method 2
- Minimum obligation method: method 1
- Days calculation method: method 1
Recent events
Official- 28 Feb 2026Strait of Hormuz shipping disruption (2026)Shipping disruption · Strait of Hormuz / Persian Gulf
- 5 Feb 2023EU import ban on Russian refined petroleum products (in force 5 February 2023)Import ban · European Union
- 5 Dec 2022EU import ban on seaborne Russian crude oil (in force 5 December 2022)Import ban · European Union
- 24 Feb 2022Russian invasion of Ukraine (24 February 2022)War · Ukraine
Source & method
- Source
- International Energy Agency — Event timeline, cited per event
- US Energy Information Administration — Event timeline, cited per event
- European Commission — Event timeline, cited per event
- European Council — Event timeline, cited per event
- National legislators — Event timeline, cited per event
- Method
- How this figure is made