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.
In 2017, Malta imported 0 tonnes of crude oil, most from Iraq (100%). Its refined-product imports were 2.8 million tonnes, most from Italy (43%), Croatia (13%) and Greece (12%).
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
- 2017
- 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, 2017
CalculatedShare of crude imports by origin, May 2016 to April 2026
- United Kingdom
- Iraq
- Netherlands
- Italy
- Germany
- United States
- Other origins
- Not published
Every crude origin, 2017
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iraq | Share:100% | 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
- 2017
- 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, 2017
Calculated| Product | Importsmillion tonnes · largest origin · months published |
|---|---|
| Road dieselshown below | Imports:0.47 Mt · Italy 48%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrol | Imports:0.09 Mt · Italy 100%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:0.14 Mt · Italy 62%months: 12 with imports |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:0.46 Mt · Spain 32%months: 11 with imports |
| Fuel oil | Imports:1.66 Mt · Italy 45%months: 12 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:<0.01 Mt · United Kingdom 100%months: 8 with imports |
| LPG | Imports:0.02 Mt · Tunisia 46%months: 12 with imports |
Road diesel
In 2017, Malta imported 470 thousand tonnes of road diesel, most from Italy (48%), the United States (26%) and Spain (8%).
Share of road diesel imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026
- Italy
- Greece
- Spain
- United States
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- Other origins
- Not published
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| ItalyEU | Share:48% | Thousand tonnes:227 | |
| United States | Share:26% | Thousand tonnes:120 | |
| SpainEU | Share:8% | Thousand tonnes:35 | |
| Saudi Arabia | Share:7% | Thousand tonnes:34 | |
| India | Share:5% | Thousand tonnes:23 | |
| NetherlandsEU | Share:4% | Thousand tonnes:21 | |
| CroatiaEU | Share:0.9% | Thousand tonnes:4 | |
| FinlandEU | Share:0.7% | Thousand tonnes:3 | |
| Singapore | Share:0.5% | Thousand tonnes:2 | |
| Azerbaijan | 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
- 2017
- 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 |
| 2017shown below | 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 |
| 2015 | 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
- 2017
- 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.