Romania · Oil imports
Romania: 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 2021, Romania imported 6.8 million tonnes of crude oil, most from Kazakhstan (46%), Russia (27%) and Iraq (11%). Its refined-product imports were 3.2 million tonnes, most from Russia (59%), Hungary (16%) and Kazakhstan (4%).
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
- 2021
- 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, 2021
CalculatedShare of crude imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026
- Kazakhstan
- Azerbaijan
- Russia
- Iraq
- Guyana
- Libya
- Other origins
Every crude origin, 2021
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan | Share:46% | Thousand tonnes:3,151 | |
| Russia | Share:27% | Thousand tonnes:1,811 | |
| Iraq | Share:11% | Thousand tonnes:783 | |
| Turkmenistan | Share:7% | Thousand tonnes:480 | |
| Azerbaijan | Share:4% | Thousand tonnes:264 | |
| Tunisia | Share:4% | Thousand tonnes:240 | |
| Ukraine | Share:1% | Thousand tonnes:90 | |
| Moldova | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:5 | |
| United Kingdom | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| Israel | 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
- 2021
- 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, 2021
Calculated1% 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:2.33 Mt · Russia 65%months: 12 with imports |
| Petrolshown below | Imports:0.16 Mt · Hungary 58%months: 12 with imports |
| Jet fuel | Imports:0.10 Mt · Türkiye 49%months: 12 with imports |
| Heating and other gasoil | Imports:0.28 Mt · Russia 98%months: 12 with imports |
| Fuel oil | Imports:0.08 Mt · Russia 92%months: 6 with imports |
| Naphtha | Imports:0.01 Mt · Germany 74%months: 12 with imports |
| LPG | Imports:0.20 Mt · Kazakhstan 67%months: 12 with imports |
Petrol
In 2021, Romania imported 158 thousand tonnes of petrol, most from Hungary (58%), Italy (37%) and Slovakia (2%).
Share of petrol imports by origin, January 2015 to July 2026
- Hungary
- Austria
- Slovakia
- Bulgaria
- Italy
- Ukraine
- Other origins
- Origin not published
| Origin | Share% of the year’s imports | Importsthousand tonnes | Share as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| HungaryEU | Share:58% | Thousand tonnes:92 | |
| ItalyEU | Share:37% | Thousand tonnes:59 | |
| SlovakiaEU | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:4 | |
| AustriaEU | Share:2% | Thousand tonnes:3 | |
| FranceEU | Share:<0.1% | Thousand tonnes:<1 | |
| SwedenEU | 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
- 2021
- 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:3.72 Mt · Kazakhstan 55%months: 7 with imports | Refined products:1.81 Mt · Saudi Arabia 39%months: 7 with imports |
| 2025 | Crude oil:8.92 Mt · Kazakhstan 62%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:2.88 Mt · Türkiye 25%months: 12 with imports |
| 2024 | Crude oil:8.28 Mt · Kazakhstan 55%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.19 Mt · Saudi Arabia 23%months: 12 with imports |
| 2023 | Crude oil:7.37 Mt · Kazakhstan 65%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.56 Mt · India 26%months: 12 with imports |
| 2022 | Crude oil:8.70 Mt · Kazakhstan 53%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:2.58 Mt · Russia 56%months: 12 with imports |
| 2021shown below | Crude oil:6.82 Mt · Kazakhstan 46%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:3.16 Mt · Russia 59%months: 12 with imports |
| 2020 | Crude oil:6.98 Mt · Kazakhstan 52%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:2.39 Mt · Russia 56%months: 12 with imports |
| 2019 | Crude oil:8.66 Mt · Kazakhstan 44%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:2.13 Mt · Russia 60%months: 12 with imports |
| 2018 | Crude oil:8.26 Mt · Russia 43%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:2.37 Mt · Russia 43%months: 12 with imports |
| 2017 | Crude oil:7.75 Mt · Russia 44%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:2.41 Mt · Russia 47%months: 12 with imports |
| 2016 | Crude oil:7.47 Mt · Russia 44%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:2.03 Mt · Russia 52%months: 12 with imports |
| 2015 | Crude oil:6.60 Mt · Russia 44%months: 12 with imports | Refined products:2.04 Mt · Russia 53%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
- 2021
- 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.