Malta · Oil imports
Malta: 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.
No crude oil import figures are published for Malta. In 2015, Malta imported 3.2 million tonnes of refined products, most from Italy (48%), Sweden (8%) and Spain (6%).
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
- 2015
- 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, 2015
CalculatedShare of crude imports by origin, May 2016 to April 2026
- United Kingdom
- Iraq
- Netherlands
- Italy
- Germany
- United States
- Other origins
- Not published
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
- 2015
- 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, 2015
Calculated0.2% 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:0.26 Mt · Italy 47%months: 10 with imports |
| Petrol | Imports:0.38 Mt · Belgium 31%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:0.11 Mt · Italy 83%months: 11 with imports |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:0.46 Mt · Italy 22%months: 12 with imports |
| Fuel oil | Imports:1.95 Mt · Italy 58%months: 12 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:<0.01 Mt · Belgium 88%months: 8 with imports |
| LPGshown below | Imports:0.02 Mt · France 63%months: 12 with imports |
LPG
In 2015, Malta imported 22 thousand tonnes of lpg, most from France (63%), Italy (28%) and Croatia (9%).
Share of lpg imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026
- Italy
- Tunisia
- France
- Croatia
- Egypt
- Kazakhstan
- Other origins
- Origin not published
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| FranceEU | Share:63% | Thousand tonnes:14 | |
| ItalyEU | Share:28% | Thousand tonnes:6 | |
| CroatiaEU | Share:9% | Thousand tonnes:2 | |
| Russia | Share:0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| United Kingdom | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| IrelandEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| China | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| Switzerland | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| GermanyEU | 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
- 2015
- 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:<0.01 Mt · Slovenia 100%months: 2 with imports | Refined products:1.12 Mt · Italy 28%months: 7 with imports |
| 2025 | Crude oil:<0.01 Mt · Iraq 50%months: 4 with imports | Refined products:2.46 Mt · Italy 35%months: 12 with imports |
| 2024 | Crude oil:<0.01 Mt · United States 82%months: 3 with imports | Refined products:2.26 Mt · Italy 39%months: 12 with imports |
| 2023 | Crude oil:<0.01 Mt · United Kingdom 100%months: 1 with imports | Refined products:1.51 Mt · Italy 42%months: 12 with imports |
| 2022 | Crude oil:<0.01 Mt · United Kingdom 67%months: 3 with imports | Refined products:1.46 Mt · Italy 32%months: 12 with imports |
| 2021 | Crude oil:<0.01 Mt · Sudan 57%months: 2 with imports | Refined products:1.95 Mt · Italy 50%months: 12 with imports |
| 2020 | Crude oil:<0.01 Mt · Netherlands 90%months: 2 with imports | Refined products:2.12 Mt · Italy 31%months: 12 with imports |
| 2019 | Crude oil:<0.01 Mt · Nigeria 100%months: 1 with imports | Refined products:2.34 Mt · Italy 35%months: 12 with imports |
| 2018 | Crude oil:<0.01 Mt · United Kingdom 94%months: 2 with imports | Refined products:2.86 Mt · Italy 41%months: 12 with imports |
| 2017 | Crude oil:<0.01 Mt · Iraq 100%months: 1 with imports | Refined products:2.84 Mt · Italy 43%months: 12 with imports |
| 2016 | Crude oil:<0.01 Mt · Germany 62%months: 3 with imports | Refined products:3.33 Mt · Italy 43%months: 12 with imports |
| 2015shown below | Crude oil:not published | Refined products:3.18 Mt · Italy 48%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
- 2015
- 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.