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 July 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 8,370 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were Saudi Arabia (9%) and the United States (7%), and 63% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Netherlands1.38 Mt (16%)Germany856 kt (10%)Saudi Arabia741 kt (9%)Italy651 kt (8%)Belgium606 kt (7%)Other origins (35)4.11 Mt (49%)Origin not reported27 kt (<1%)France1.44 Mt (17%)Germany884 kt (11%)Netherlands838 kt (10%)Italy698 kt (8%)Poland604 kt (7%)Belgium465 kt (6%)Spain436 kt (5%)Sweden357 kt (4%)Other EU (17)2.65 Mt (32%)
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Where the oil was produced
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
- 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) | 1,133,024 | — | Summed by usSum of 15 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | France | 776,000 | 53.9% | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Netherlands | 563,416 | 67.2% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (17) | 556,139 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Other EU (17) | 519,851 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Italy | 516,980 | 74.0% | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 467,211 | 52.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 402,100 | 86.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 330,000 | 22.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Poland | 326,120 | 54.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Sweden | 269,110 | 75.3% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Spain | 257,132 | 59.0% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Germany | 239,761 | 27.1% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 229,401 | 27.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 185,513 | 30.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Italy | 168,547 | 24.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (17) | 143,002 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (17) | 134,067 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (17) | 133,664 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 123,000 | 8.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 110,286 | 25.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 103,000 | 7.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 97,490 | 11.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 91,980 | 15.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Germany | 79,713 | 9.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 68,901 | 19.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Spain | 67,156 | 15.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | France | 64,000 | 4.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 45,035 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 45,000 | 3.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Belgium | 29,100 | 6.3% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Belgium | 28,400 | 6.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (17) | 26,969 | 50.1% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Germany | Sweden | 19,428 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Italy | 12,668 | 1.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 5,200 | 1.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Spain | 1,148 | 0.3% | 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
Source Period 2024-07 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:22 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyDownload CSV
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
- 2024-07 (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 2024-07, 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: 2024-07 (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.