Fuel Origin

Netherlands · Oil imports

Netherlands: 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 2025, the Netherlands imported 88.6 million tonnes of crude oil, most from the United States (22%), Norway (18%) and Kazakhstan (14%). Its refined-product imports were 40.9 million tonnes, most from Belgium (19%), Germany (9%) and the United Kingdom (9%).

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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)
Every source, with links and licences
Period
2025
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, 2025

Calculated

0.3% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.

Share of crude imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026

3-month average of monthly shares, over the months with figures in each window
Sep 2020Jul 20260%25%50%75%100%Norway 14.3%United States 27.5%Other origins 47.8%
  • Russia
  • Norway
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • Nigeria
  • Iraq
  • Other origins
  • Origin not published

Every crude origin, 2025

Crude oil imports of Netherlands in 2025 by origin (by the country the cargo was shipped from).
United StatesShare:22%Thousand tonnes:19,753
NorwayShare:18%Thousand tonnes:15,969
KazakhstanShare:14%Thousand tonnes:12,488
United KingdomShare:9%Thousand tonnes:7,701
IraqShare:7%Thousand tonnes:6,171
GuyanaShare:5%Thousand tonnes:4,820
NigeriaShare:5%Thousand tonnes:4,721
LibyaShare:3%Thousand tonnes:2,532
SenegalShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,924
AngolaShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,604
NigerShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,461
ChadShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,440
AlgeriaShare:1%Thousand tonnes:945
BelgiumEUShare:1%Thousand tonnes:890
Saudi ArabiaShare:1%Thousand tonnes:884
CameroonShare:0.9%Thousand tonnes:753
MexicoShare:0.8%Thousand tonnes:709
CongoShare:0.7%Thousand tonnes:664
IsraelShare:0.7%Thousand tonnes:580
Côte d’IvoireShare:0.5%Thousand tonnes:410
AzerbaijanShare:0.4%Thousand tonnes:395
ArgentinaShare:0.4%Thousand tonnes:330
TürkiyeShare:0.3%Thousand tonnes:258
DenmarkEUShare:0.3%Thousand tonnes:247
GabonShare:0.2%Thousand tonnes:175
GhanaShare:0.1%Thousand tonnes:129
Equatorial GuineaShare:0.1%Thousand tonnes:91
TunisiaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:60
MauritaniaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:45
GuineaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:39
United Arab EmiratesShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:30
ChileShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:25
GermanyEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:23
BahamasShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:3
SpainEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
QatarShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
FranceEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
ThailandShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
AustraliaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
OmanShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
EgyptShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
HungaryEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
SwedenEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
SlovakiaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
IrelandEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
LithuaniaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
ChinaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
MalaysiaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
CyprusEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
RomaniaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
LuxembourgEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
BulgariaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
LatviaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
PortugalEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
FinlandEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
SloveniaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
EcuadorShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
AustriaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
CzechiaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
LiberiaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
GibraltarShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
TogoShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
Cannot be traced to a named country0.3%283
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)
Every source, with links and licences
Period
2025
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, 2025

Calculated

4% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.

Refined product imports by product family: million tonnes, largest origin and months published.
Road dieselImports:7.81 Mt · Belgium 20%months: 12 with imports
Petrolshown belowImports:6.25 Mt · United Kingdom 19%months: 12 with imports
Jet fuelImports:4.07 Mt · Kuwait 33%months: 12 with imports
Heating and other gasoilImports:2.74 Mt · Belgium 56%months: 12 with imports
Fuel oilImports:7.37 Mt · Belgium 24%months: 12 with imports
NaphthaImports:8.68 Mt · Belgium 18%months: 12 with imports
LPGImports:3.97 Mt · United States 64%months: 12 with imports

Petrol

In 2025, the Netherlands imported 6.2 million tonnes of petrol, most from the United Kingdom (19%), Belgium (17%) and Finland (17%).

9% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.

Share of petrol imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026

3-month average of monthly shares, over the months with figures in each window
Sep 2020Jul 20260%25%50%75%100%United Kingdom 51.1%Sweden 11.7%Finland 11.0%
  • Belgium
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Sweden
  • Finland
  • Spain
  • Other origins
  • Origin not published
Petrol imports of Netherlands in 2025 by origin (by the country the cargo was shipped from).
United KingdomShare:19%Thousand tonnes:1,205
BelgiumEUShare:17%Thousand tonnes:1,060
FinlandEUShare:17%Thousand tonnes:1,053
SwedenEUShare:12%Thousand tonnes:738
GermanyEUShare:10%Thousand tonnes:626
LithuaniaEUShare:4%Thousand tonnes:263
ItalyEUShare:4%Thousand tonnes:259
SpainEUShare:3%Thousand tonnes:184
PortugalEUShare:2%Thousand tonnes:101
FranceEUShare:1%Thousand tonnes:79
LatviaEUShare:0.5%Thousand tonnes:29
DenmarkEUShare:0.3%Thousand tonnes:21
PolandEUShare:0.3%Thousand tonnes:21
HungaryEUShare:0.3%Thousand tonnes:20
United StatesShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
EstoniaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
CzechiaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
LuxembourgEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
CroatiaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
SlovakiaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
GreeceEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
IrelandEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
RomaniaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
AustriaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
BulgariaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
SloveniaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
CyprusEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
South AfricaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
MaltaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
Cannot be traced to a named country9%586
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)
Every source, with links and licences
Period
2025
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

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Select a year to see its origins above.

Crude oil and refined product imports by year: million tonnes, largest origin and months published. Select a year for its origins.
January–July 2026Crude oil:60.19 Mt · United States 24%months: 7 with importsRefined products:21.43 Mt · Belgium 22%months: 7 with imports
2025shown belowCrude oil:88.55 Mt · United States 22%months: 12 with importsRefined products:40.89 Mt · Belgium 19%months: 12 with imports
2024Crude oil:97.17 Mt · United States 23%months: 12 with importsRefined products:45.11 Mt · Belgium 21%months: 12 with imports
2023Crude oil:101.83 Mt · United States 21%months: 12 with importsRefined products:42.47 Mt · Belgium 24%months: 12 with imports
2022Crude oil:95.45 Mt · Russia 22%months: 12 with importsRefined products:42.92 Mt · Belgium 23%months: 12 with imports
2021Crude oil:94.29 Mt · Russia 34%months: 12 with importsRefined products:45.84 Mt · Belgium 23%months: 12 with imports
2020Crude oil:90.76 Mt · Russia 30%months: 12 with importsRefined products:44.23 Mt · Belgium 19%months: 12 with imports
2019Crude oil:96.26 Mt · Russia 28%months: 12 with importsRefined products:52.98 Mt · Belgium 15%months: 12 with imports
2018Crude oil:93.34 Mt · Russia 32%months: 12 with importsRefined products:52.41 Mt · Belgium 15%months: 12 with imports
2017Crude oil:94.80 Mt · Russia 37%months: 12 with importsRefined products:57.16 Mt · Belgium 18%months: 12 with imports
2016Crude oil:90.56 Mt · Russia 38%months: 12 with importsRefined products:63.31 Mt · Belgium 17%months: 12 with imports
2015Crude oil:91.21 Mt · Russia 27%months: 12 with importsRefined products:63.15 Mt · Belgium 15%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)
Every source, with links and licences
Period
2025
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.