Flows
How oil reaches each country
Where the EU’s crude oil and fuel come from, as each member state reports its imports; every band’s width is proportional to tonnes.
In January 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 8,099 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were Saudi Arabia (12%), India (9%) and the United States (7%), and 55% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
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Where the oil was produced
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
Total road diesel imports reported (Jan 2024)
1.45 million tonnes
18% of reported EU road diesel imports
Official
Top origin countries
- Other origins (34)552 kt (38%)
- Saudi Arabia452 kt (31%)
- Netherlands203 kt (14%)
and 3 more in the table above
Source: Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
- Reported; colour = country of production
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
The numbers as a table
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other origins (34) | Other EU (17) | 1,655,350 | — | Summed by usSum of 17 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 565,034 | 59.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | France | 552,000 | 38.1% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 452,000 | 31.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Netherlands | 446,418 | 39.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Netherlands | 408,866 | 36.4% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 345,200 | 70.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Italy | 311,881 | 56.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (34) | Poland | 244,302 | 41.7% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Austria | 238,987 | 81.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 223,339 | 49.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Germany | 220,588 | 23.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 203,000 | 14.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 196,928 | 17.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (17) | 181,414 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 172,532 | 18.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Italy | 164,129 | 29.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Spain | 161,089 | 35.5% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Poland | 148,284 | 25.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (17) | 128,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Belgium | 123,900 | 25.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (17) | 114,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| India | France | 109,000 | 7.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 96,200 | 16.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (17) | 89,812 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 89,000 | 6.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 71,016 | 6.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Italy | 65,860 | 11.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Poland | 57,878 | 9.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Austria | 53,963 | 18.4% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Spain | 46,431 | 10.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 42,000 | 2.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Poland | 38,678 | 6.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Other EU (17) | 25,908 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| India | Spain | 21,300 | 4.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Italy | 14,523 | 2.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 12,100 | 2.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Belgium | 5,800 | 1.2% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | Spain | 2,077 | 0.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
2 flows with a share under 0.1% are not listed here. They are still counted in every total and drawn in the diagram, and the CSV under Source & method lists every flow.
Source & method
Eurostat (European Commission)Official
Provenance
OfficialOfficial- Publisher
- Eurostat (European Commission)
- Dataset id
- Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly datanrg_ti_oilmeurostat_nrg_ti_oilm
- Period
- 2024-01 (month)
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23 07:29 UTC
- Type
- Official
- Transformation
- none applied - stored exactly as published
- Licence
- Commission Decision 2011/833/EU - reuse authorised with attribution
- Tonnes are the figures each member state published (OFFICIAL); shares and the 'Other' and 'Origin not reported' sums are our arithmetic on them (CALCULATED).
- Energy basis: the country where the oil was produced.
Left: where the road diesel was produced. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2024-01, in tonnes. Every solid flow is a figure a member state published. In the Top 5 views the other side keeps its eight largest countries and sums the rest into one “Other” row (our arithmetic, dotted).
Month: 2024-01 (requested; 27 of 27 member states reported). Energy basis: the country where the oil was produced, as each EU member state reports it (Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm).
Not in the diagram: Denmark, Finland. They reported no imports above zero from any named origin for this month (a reported zero, or origins the publisher withheld). That is not the same as importing nothing.
- Energy basis (Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm): the country where the oil was produced, as each EU member state reports it. The customs basis (country of consignment) is not mixed in.
- Imports from other EU member states are mostly re-exports of oil produced elsewhere; they are grouped separately so they are not read as production.
- A member state's imports the publisher did not attribute to a country are shown as 'Origin not reported', never spread over the named origins.