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 September 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 8,062 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (8%) and Saudi Arabia (6%), and 63% 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 (Sep 2024)
556.0 thousand tonnes
7% of reported EU road diesel imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Other EU (17)462 kt (83%)
- Spain94 kt (17%)
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 (35) | Other EU (17) | 1,168,484 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | France | 840,000 | 58.8% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 584,922 | 50.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Other EU (17) | 462,341 | — | Summed by usSum of 8 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (17) | 454,675 | — | Summed by usSum of 9 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Netherlands | 413,375 | 53.2% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Italy | 401,245 | 80.8% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 343,000 | 69.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Sweden | 277,512 | 87.5% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 271,355 | 23.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 240,941 | 31.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 212,000 | 14.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Spain | 209,788 | 39.5% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Spain | 187,393 | 35.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 173,509 | 32.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Germany | 155,099 | 13.4% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Poland | 150,562 | 28.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Germany | 144,083 | 12.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 141,000 | 9.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 140,000 | 9.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Belgium | 129,100 | 26.3% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Poland | 119,840 | 22.4% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Other EU (17) | 110,038 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Netherlands | 96,337 | 12.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (17) | 93,795 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Spain | 93,666 | 17.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 90,875 | 17.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 61,000 | 4.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Italy | 40,895 | 8.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United States | Spain | 40,857 | 7.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (17) | 40,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 39,527 | 12.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 34,000 | 2.4% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United States | Italy | 30,430 | 6.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 26,553 | 3.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Italy | 24,005 | 4.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 19,200 | 3.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
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
- 2024-09 (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 2024-09, 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: 2024-09 (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.