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.
No crude oil import figures are published for Malta. In 2020, Malta imported 2.8 million tonnes of refined products, most from Algeria (19%), Italy (13%) and Russia (10%).
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2020
- 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, 2020
CalculatedSource & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2020
- 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, 2020
Calculated| Product | Importsmillion tonnes · largest origin · months published |
|---|---|
| Road diesel | Imports:0.16 Mt · Italy 32%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrolshown below | Imports:0.07 Mt · Spain 84%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:0.05 Mt · Italy 65%months: 3 with imports |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:0.51 Mt · Spain 28%months: 12 with imports |
| Fuel oil | Imports:1.96 Mt · Algeria 24%months: 12 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:not published |
| LPG | Imports:0.02 Mt · Italy 45%months: 12 with imports |
Petrol
In 2020, Malta imported 73 thousand tonnes of petrol, most from Spain (84%), Greece (16%) and Italy (<0.1%).
Share of petrol imports by origin, January 2015 to June 2026
- Italy
- Greece
- Spain
- Romania
- Croatia
- Israel
- Other origins
- Origin not published
- Not published
- No imports reported
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| SpainEU | Share:84% | Thousand tonnes:61 | |
| GreeceEU | Share:16% | Thousand tonnes:12 | |
| ItalyEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- 2020
- 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 |
| 2023 | 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 |
| 2020shown below | 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
- 2020
- 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.