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 August 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 8,586 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (10%), Saudi Arabia (7%) and India (6%), and 58% came from other EU member states, with 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 to EU member states (Aug 2024)
770.7 thousand tonnes
9% of reported EU road diesel imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Other EU (17)434 kt (56%)
- Poland216 kt (28%)
- Hungary55 kt (7%)
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 (36) | Other EU (17) | 1,677,492 | — | Summed by usSum of 17 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (36) | Netherlands | 747,263 | 71.7% | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 713,289 | 59.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (36) | France | 579,000 | 41.0% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (17) | 433,702 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | France | 387,000 | 27.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 351,800 | 55.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (36) | Hungary | 272,000 | 83.2% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (36) | Italy | 253,080 | 52.8% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (17) | 232,884 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 231,892 | 19.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 216,004 | 43.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 214,929 | 20.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Italy | 211,047 | 44.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Spain | 181,606 | 47.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (36) | Belgium | 180,900 | 28.5% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (36) | Spain | 163,507 | 43.0% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (36) | Germany | 162,215 | 13.6% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 157,000 | 11.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (17) | 156,444 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 128,000 | 9.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 117,585 | 23.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 111,000 | 7.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Germany | 84,225 | 7.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 84,063 | 17.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (17) | 78,808 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (36) | Poland | 74,831 | 15.2% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Belgium | 59,900 | 9.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Hungary | 55,000 | 16.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 40,182 | 3.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 39,591 | 3.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Belgium | 35,900 | 5.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 35,512 | 9.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 31,000 | 2.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (17) | 29,302 | 9.1% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Germany | France | 19,000 | 1.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (17) | 16,767 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Italy | 15,166 | 3.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 6,800 | 1.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
One flow with a share under 0.1% is not listed here. It is 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
- 2024-08 (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 2024-08, 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: 2024-08 (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.