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 April 2026, all 27 EU member states reported importing 6,609 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (10%) and Saudi Arabia (8%), and 69% came from other EU member states, with 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Netherlands1.06 Mt (16%)Belgium1.04 Mt (16%)Germany893 kt (14%)United States658 kt (10%)Saudi Arabia545 kt (8%)Other origins (35)2.37 Mt (36%)Origin not reported41 kt (<1%)France882 kt (13%)Netherlands792 kt (12%)Poland697 kt (11%)Germany659 kt (10%)Belgium514 kt (8%)Italy358 kt (5%)Austria323 kt (5%)Czechia304 kt (5%)Other EU (17)2.08 Mt (31%)
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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) | 1,420,866 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 734,028 | 92.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 372,400 | 72.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 370,000 | 42.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 340,629 | 51.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (17) | 279,233 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Czechia | 279,000 | 91.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Austria | 245,369 | 76.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Poland | 241,706 | 34.7% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Poland | 229,226 | 32.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Italy | 214,695 | 60.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | France | 212,000 | 24.0% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Other EU (17) | 148,437 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Germany | 142,750 | 21.7% | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (17) | 126,028 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Belgium | 125,900 | 24.5% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 121,672 | 18.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Italy | 118,968 | 33.3% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 114,000 | 12.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (17) | 85,881 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Poland | 85,650 | 12.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 83,545 | 12.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 78,000 | 8.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Austria | 73,135 | 22.6% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | France | 57,000 | 6.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Germany | 54,129 | 8.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 51,000 | 5.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 46,833 | 5.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Poland | 41,304 | 5.9% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other origins (35) | Czechia | 25,000 | 8.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Italy | 23,583 | 6.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (17) | 19,477 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Belgium | 15,800 | 3.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Poland | 15,629 | 2.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Netherlands | 11,030 | 1.4% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Austria | 4,442 | 1.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (17) | 46 | 0.3% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
3 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 2026-04 (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
- 2026-04 (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 2026-04, 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: 2026-04 (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.