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Romania · Oil imports

Romania: 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.

In 2018, Romania imported 8.3 million tonnes of crude oil, most from Russia (43%), Kazakhstan (37%) and Azerbaijan (9%). Its refined-product imports were 1.8 million tonnes, most from Hungary (28%), Russia (27%) and the United States (14%).

Calculated
Source & method
Source
  • Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
Every source, with links and licences
Period
2018
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, 2018

Calculated

0.6% of it was not attributed to any country by the publisher and cannot be traced.

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

3-month average of monthly shares, over the months with figures in each window
Sep 2020Jun 20260%25%50%75%100%Kazakhstan 56.6%Azerbaijan 22.2%Other origins 16.4%
  • Kazakhstan
  • Azerbaijan
  • Russia
  • Iraq
  • Libya
  • Turkmenistan
  • Other origins
  • Origin not published

Every crude origin, 2018

Crude oil imports of Romania in 2018 by origin (by country of production).
RussiaShare:43%Thousand tonnes:3,581
KazakhstanShare:37%Thousand tonnes:3,039
AzerbaijanShare:9%Thousand tonnes:748
IraqShare:9%Thousand tonnes:723
NigeriaShare:2%Thousand tonnes:126
Cannot be traced to a named country0.6%47
Source & method
Source
  • Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
Every source, with links and licences
Period
2018
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, 2018

Calculated

5% 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:1.46 Mt · Russia 32%months: 12 with imports
Petrolshown belowImports:0.10 Mt · Hungary 71%months: 12 with imports
Jet fuelImports:0.07 Mt · Serbia 40%months: 12 with imports
Heating and other gasoilImports:not publishedmonths: 12 not published
Fuel oilImports:none importedmonths: 11 reported none · 1 not published
NaphthaImports:0.01 Mt · Hungary 86%months: 6 with imports · 6 not published
LPGImports:0.17 Mt · Kazakhstan 69%months: 12 with imports

Petrol

In 2018, Romania imported 99 thousand tonnes of petrol, most from Hungary (71%), Austria (20%) and Slovakia (9%).

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

3-month average of monthly shares, over the months with figures in each window
Sep 2020Jun 20260%25%50%75%100%Hungary 13.7%Slovakia 61.3%Bulgaria 22.6%
  • Hungary
  • Slovakia
  • Austria
  • Italy
  • Bulgaria
  • Germany
  • Not published
Petrol imports of Romania in 2018 by origin (by the country it was last shipped from, as energy statistics report it).
HungaryEUShare:71%Thousand tonnes:70
AustriaEUShare:20%Thousand tonnes:20
SlovakiaEUShare:9%Thousand tonnes:9
Source & method
Source
  • Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
Every source, with links and licences
Period
2018
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

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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–June 2026Crude oil:3.22 Mt · Kazakhstan 56%months: 6 with importsRefined products:1.49 Mt · Saudi Arabia 41%months: 6 with imports
2025Crude oil:8.88 Mt · Kazakhstan 62%months: 12 with importsRefined products:2.74 Mt · Türkiye 24%months: 12 with imports
2024Crude oil:8.28 Mt · Kazakhstan 55%months: 12 with importsRefined products:2.87 Mt · Saudi Arabia 25%months: 12 with imports
2023Crude oil:7.37 Mt · Kazakhstan 65%months: 12 with importsRefined products:3.21 Mt · India 29%months: 12 with imports
2022Crude oil:8.70 Mt · Kazakhstan 53%months: 12 with importsRefined products:2.42 Mt · Russia 54%months: 12 with imports
2021Crude oil:6.82 Mt · Kazakhstan 46%months: 12 with importsRefined products:2.28 Mt · Russia 49%months: 12 with imports
2020Crude oil:6.96 Mt · Kazakhstan 52%months: 12 with importsRefined products:1.58 Mt · Russia 35%months: 12 with imports
2019Crude oil:8.64 Mt · Kazakhstan 44%months: 12 with importsRefined products:1.45 Mt · Russia 41%months: 12 with imports
2018shown belowCrude oil:8.26 Mt · Russia 43%months: 12 with importsRefined products:1.81 Mt · Hungary 28%months: 12 with imports
2017Crude oil:7.75 Mt · Russia 44%months: 12 with importsRefined products:1.72 Mt · Russia 31%months: 12 with imports
2016Crude oil:7.47 Mt · Russia 44%months: 12 with importsRefined products:1.55 Mt · Russia 39%months: 12 with imports
2015Crude oil:6.59 Mt · Russia 44%months: 12 with importsRefined products:1.51 Mt · Russia 38%months: 12 with imports
Source & method
Source
  • Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
Every source, with links and licences
Period
2018
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.