Malta · Oil imports
Malta: 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.
Malta reported no crude oil imports in 2023. In 2023, Malta imported 2.8 million tonnes of refined products, most from Italy (23%), Spain (12%) and Turkmenistan (9%).
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2023
- 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, 2023
CalculatedSource & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2023
- 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, 2023
Calculated| Product | Importsmillion tonnes · largest origin · months published |
|---|---|
| Road diesel | Imports:0.17 Mt · Italy 62%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrol | Imports:0.08 Mt · Romania 41%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:0.15 Mt · Libya 52%months: 11 with imports · 1 reported none |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:0.50 Mt · Italy 36%months: 12 with imports |
| Fuel oilshown below | Imports:1.92 Mt · Italy 16%months: 12 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:none importedmonths: 12 reported none |
| LPG | Imports:0.02 Mt · France 51%months: 12 with imports |
Fuel oil
In 2023, Malta imported 1.9 million tonnes of fuel oil, most from Italy (16%), Spain (15%) and Turkmenistan (11%).
Share of fuel oil imports by origin, January 2015 to June 2026
- Italy
- Israel
- Spain
- Türkiye
- Russia
- Sweden
- Other origins
- Origin not published
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| ItalyEU | Share:16% | Thousand tonnes:304 | |
| SpainEU | Share:15% | Thousand tonnes:292 | |
| Turkmenistan | Share:11% | Thousand tonnes:215 | |
| Israel | Share:10% | Thousand tonnes:197 | |
| Azerbaijan | Share:8% | Thousand tonnes:156 | |
| Kazakhstan | Share:7% | Thousand tonnes:134 | |
| Algeria | Share:6% | Thousand tonnes:111 | |
| NetherlandsEU | Share:6% | Thousand tonnes:106 | |
| United Kingdom | Share:5% | Thousand tonnes:101 | |
| CroatiaEU | Share:4% | Thousand tonnes:86 | |
| FranceEU | Share:4% | Thousand tonnes:68 | |
| Peru | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:45 | |
| Türkiye | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:30 | |
| Tunisia | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:21 | |
| EstoniaEU | Share:0.9% | Thousand tonnes:18 | |
| SloveniaEU | Share:0.9% | Thousand tonnes:17 | |
| Georgia | Share:0.8% | Thousand tonnes:15 | |
| Kyrgyzstan | Share:0.4% | Thousand tonnes:7 | |
| United States | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2023
- 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:none importedmonths: 6 reported none | Refined products:1.30 Mt · Italy 18%months: 6 with imports |
| 2025 | Crude oil:none importedmonths: 12 reported none | Refined products:2.73 Mt · Spain 26%months: 12 with imports |
| 2024 | Crude oil:none importedmonths: 12 reported none | Refined products:2.59 Mt · Italy 25%months: 12 with imports |
| 2023shown below | Crude oil:none importedmonths: 12 reported none | Refined products:2.84 Mt · Italy 23%months: 12 with imports |
| 2022 | Crude oil:none importedmonths: 12 reported none | Refined products:2.68 Mt · Italy 16%months: 12 with imports |
| 2021 | Crude oil:none importedmonths: 12 reported none | Refined products:2.43 Mt · Italy 30%months: 12 with imports |
| 2020 | Crude oil:not published | Refined products:2.77 Mt · Algeria 19%months: 12 with imports |
| 2019 | Crude oil:none importedmonths: 12 reported none | Refined products:3.09 Mt · Russia 20%months: 12 with imports |
| 2018 | Crude oil:none importedmonths: 12 reported none | Refined products:2.99 Mt · Italy 28%months: 12 with imports |
| 2017 | Crude oil:none importedmonths: 12 reported none | Refined products:2.87 Mt · Italy 26%months: 12 with imports |
| 2016 | Crude oil:none importedmonths: 12 reported none | Refined products:2.69 Mt · Italy 32%months: 12 with imports |
| 2015 | Crude oil:none importedmonths: 12 reported none | Refined products:2.70 Mt · Italy 28%months: 12 with imports |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2023
- 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.