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 March 2026, all 27 EU member states reported importing 8,014 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were Saudi Arabia (11%), and 66% came from other EU member states, with 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Netherlands1.33 Mt (17%)Germany980 kt (12%)Saudi Arabia913 kt (11%)Belgium912 kt (11%)Italy552 kt (7%)Other origins (38)3.25 Mt (41%)Origin not reported76 kt (<1%)Netherlands937 kt (12%)France872 kt (11%)Germany857 kt (11%)Poland784 kt (10%)Italy663 kt (8%)Belgium631 kt (8%)Spain429 kt (5%)Austria335 kt (4%)Other EU (16)2.51 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 (38) | Other EU (16) | 1,375,584 | — | Summed by usSum of 15 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 646,049 | 69.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 523,700 | 83.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Italy | 435,608 | 65.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 433,399 | 50.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Other EU (16) | 423,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (38) | Poland | 399,239 | 50.9% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (38) | France | 398,000 | 45.6% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (38) | Germany | 331,868 | 38.7% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (38) | Spain | 305,255 | 71.2% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 271,000 | 31.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (16) | 270,751 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Austria | 246,576 | 73.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 227,857 | 29.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (16) | 182,576 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (38) | Netherlands | 155,703 | 16.6% | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (16) | 153,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (38) | Italy | 138,237 | 20.9% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Netherlands | 134,847 | 14.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 106,537 | 13.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (16) | 102,249 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (38) | Belgium | 101,400 | 16.1% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | France | 94,000 | 10.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 91,625 | 10.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Spain | 85,511 | 19.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 55,000 | 6.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 53,000 | 6.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (38) | Austria | 44,055 | 13.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Italy | Austria | 43,968 | 13.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Italy | 39,454 | 6.0% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Saudi Arabia | Spain | 38,178 | 8.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Poland | 35,432 | 4.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Netherlands | Italy | 30,653 | 4.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Italy | 18,614 | 2.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Poland | 15,209 | 1.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 6,000 | 1.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 1,000 | 0.1% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (16) | 46 | 0.1% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
Source & method
Source Period 2026-03 (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
- 2026-03 (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 2026-03, 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: 2026-03 (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, Greece. 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.