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 May 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 8,938 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were India (9%), Saudi Arabia (8%) and the United States (6%), and 56% 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 (May 2024)
647.2 thousand tonnes
7% of reported EU road diesel imports
Official
Top origin countries
- Other origins (36)247 kt (38%)
- Germany222 kt (34%)
- Netherlands115 kt (18%)
and 1 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) | 1,903,396 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (36) | France | 604,000 | 41.6% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 392,819 | 34.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (36) | Germany | 382,803 | 33.9% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 365,600 | 49.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (36) | Netherlands | 365,355 | 31.9% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (36) | Spain | 356,425 | 61.9% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (36) | Italy | 314,421 | 63.6% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| India | Netherlands | 311,936 | 27.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 294,250 | 26.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | France | 284,000 | 19.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 272,000 | 18.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 262,089 | 22.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (17) | 259,401 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (36) | Poland | 247,241 | 38.2% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Austria | 232,821 | 77.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 221,769 | 34.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (17) | 157,969 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Italy | 154,311 | 31.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 151,000 | 10.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (36) | Belgium | 141,100 | 19.2% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Netherlands | 126,513 | 11.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (17) | 126,096 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Belgium | 125,500 | 17.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 115,169 | 17.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 110,808 | 19.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Belgium | 92,600 | 12.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 87,000 | 6.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | 80,795 | 7.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (36) | Austria | 67,946 | 22.6% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| India | Spain | 64,445 | 11.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Poland | 63,014 | 9.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Germany | 59,624 | 5.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Spain | 44,012 | 7.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 31,000 | 2.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Italy | 25,253 | 5.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 24,000 | 1.7% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Germany | Belgium | 11,800 | 1.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (17) | 6,999 | 6.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Other EU (17) | 1,000 | 0.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
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
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
- 2024-05 (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 2024-05, 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: 2024-05 (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.