Fuel Origin

Spain · Oil imports

Spain: 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 2023, Spain imported 62.2 million tonnes of crude oil, most from the United States (14%), Mexico (12%) and Nigeria (10%). Its refined-product imports were 15.3 million tonnes, most from Italy (23%), the United States (10%) and India (8%).

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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
2023
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, 2023

Calculated

0.1% 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%Nigeria 11.1%Mexico 12.0%United States 15.5%Brazil 11.0%Other origins 36.8%
  • Nigeria
  • Mexico
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Libya
  • United States
  • Brazil
  • Other origins
  • Origin not published

Every crude origin, 2023

Crude oil imports of Spain in 2023 by origin (by the country the cargo was shipped from).
United StatesShare:14%Thousand tonnes:8,958
MexicoShare:12%Thousand tonnes:7,179
NigeriaShare:10%Thousand tonnes:6,247
BrazilShare:10%Thousand tonnes:6,224
LibyaShare:7%Thousand tonnes:4,531
AngolaShare:7%Thousand tonnes:4,169
Saudi ArabiaShare:7%Thousand tonnes:4,112
IraqShare:5%Thousand tonnes:3,111
KazakhstanShare:5%Thousand tonnes:2,996
CanadaShare:4%Thousand tonnes:2,672
AlgeriaShare:4%Thousand tonnes:2,383
AzerbaijanShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,425
VenezuelaShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,408
NorwayShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,098
ColombiaShare:2%Thousand tonnes:1,097
GuyanaShare:1%Thousand tonnes:675
Equatorial GuineaShare:1%Thousand tonnes:642
ItalyEUShare:0.9%Thousand tonnes:537
United KingdomShare:0.7%Thousand tonnes:431
AlbaniaShare:0.7%Thousand tonnes:421
NetherlandsEUShare:0.5%Thousand tonnes:333
GreeceEUShare:0.3%Thousand tonnes:215
MaltaEUShare:0.3%Thousand tonnes:175
Trinidad and TobagoShare:0.2%Thousand tonnes:152
EcuadorShare:0.2%Thousand tonnes:148
EgyptShare:0.2%Thousand tonnes:143
GuineaShare:0.2%Thousand tonnes:140
GabonShare:0.2%Thousand tonnes:133
GhanaShare:0.2%Thousand tonnes:131
TürkiyeShare:0.1%Thousand tonnes:90
FranceEUShare:0.1%Thousand tonnes:64
TunisiaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:58
United States Virgin IslandsShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:40
IsraelShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:28
GermanyEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:1
PortugalEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
ArgentinaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
KuwaitShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
AustraliaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
BangladeshShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
ChinaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
SlovakiaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
Cannot be traced to a named country0.1%67
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
2023
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, 2023

Calculated

0.2% 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 dieselshown belowImports:5.06 Mt · Italy 26%months: 12 with imports
PetrolImports:0.50 Mt · Italy 49%months: 12 with imports
Jet fuelImports:1.51 Mt · Kuwait 20%months: 12 with imports
Heating and other gasoilImports:0.83 Mt · Italy 40%months: 12 with imports
Fuel oilImports:4.92 Mt · Italy 29%months: 12 with imports
NaphthaImports:0.97 Mt · Italy 23%months: 12 with imports
LPGImports:1.55 Mt · United States 64%months: 12 with imports

Road diesel

In 2023, Spain imported 5.1 million tonnes of road diesel, most from Italy (26%), India (17%) and the United Arab Emirates (12%).

Share of road diesel 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%Italy 18.1%United States 39.6%Saudi Arabia 29.0%Other origins 13.4%
  • Italy
  • United States
  • Saudi Arabia
  • India
  • Portugal
  • Russia
  • Other origins
  • Origin not published
Road diesel imports of Spain in 2023 by origin (by the country the cargo was shipped from).
ItalyEUShare:26%Thousand tonnes:1,322
IndiaShare:17%Thousand tonnes:847
United Arab EmiratesShare:12%Thousand tonnes:627
United StatesShare:10%Thousand tonnes:496
BelgiumEUShare:6%Thousand tonnes:317
KuwaitShare:6%Thousand tonnes:283
Saudi ArabiaShare:4%Thousand tonnes:206
ChinaShare:3%Thousand tonnes:156
RussiaShare:2%Thousand tonnes:109
FranceEUShare:2%Thousand tonnes:88
KazakhstanShare:2%Thousand tonnes:85
TürkiyeShare:2%Thousand tonnes:81
TurkmenistanShare:1%Thousand tonnes:74
OmanShare:1%Thousand tonnes:64
IsraelShare:1%Thousand tonnes:64
NetherlandsEUShare:1%Thousand tonnes:58
BahrainShare:1%Thousand tonnes:52
PortugalEUShare:0.7%Thousand tonnes:33
CyprusEUShare:0.6%Thousand tonnes:33
South KoreaShare:0.6%Thousand tonnes:30
SingaporeShare:0.5%Thousand tonnes:24
QatarShare:0.1%Thousand tonnes:6
BulgariaEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:2
GermanyEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:1
IrelandEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:1
United KingdomShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
SwedenEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
GibraltarShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
CanadaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
FinlandEUShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
CameroonShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
MexicoShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
ColombiaShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
EgyptShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
JapanShare:<0.1%Thousand tonnes:<1
JordanShare:<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)
Every source, with links and licences
Period
2023
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:34.20 Mt · United States 15%months: 7 with importsRefined products:9.26 Mt · Italy 23%months: 7 with imports
2025Crude oil:61.83 Mt · United States 16%months: 12 with importsRefined products:14.90 Mt · Italy 24%months: 12 with imports
2024Crude oil:64.81 Mt · United States 16%months: 12 with importsRefined products:14.22 Mt · Italy 24%months: 12 with imports
2023shown belowCrude oil:62.24 Mt · United States 14%months: 12 with importsRefined products:15.34 Mt · Italy 23%months: 12 with imports
2022Crude oil:64.78 Mt · Nigeria 13%months: 12 with importsRefined products:13.69 Mt · Italy 15%months: 12 with imports
2021Crude oil:57.82 Mt · Nigeria 18%months: 12 with importsRefined products:15.15 Mt · Russia 33%months: 12 with imports
2020Crude oil:58.04 Mt · Nigeria 19%months: 12 with importsRefined products:13.76 Mt · Russia 25%months: 12 with imports
2019Crude oil:66.75 Mt · Nigeria 16%months: 12 with importsRefined products:16.53 Mt · Russia 16%months: 12 with imports
2018Crude oil:68.31 Mt · Nigeria 15%months: 12 with importsRefined products:16.54 Mt · Italy 16%months: 12 with imports
2017Crude oil:67.85 Mt · Mexico 14%months: 12 with importsRefined products:18.87 Mt · Italy 21%months: 12 with imports
2016Crude oil:65.10 Mt · Mexico 15%months: 12 with importsRefined products:16.69 Mt · Italy 16%months: 12 with imports
2015Crude oil:67.83 Mt · Nigeria 16%months: 12 with importsRefined products:16.37 Mt · Russia 17%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
2023
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.