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 February 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 6,288 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were Saudi Arabia (11%) and the United States (9%), and 67% came from other EU member states, with 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Netherlands1.10 Mt (18%)Germany781 kt (12%)Saudi Arabia673 kt (11%)United States573 kt (9%)Belgium520 kt (8%)Other origins (31)2.60 Mt (41%)Origin not reported33 kt (<1%)France1.20 Mt (19%)Netherlands721 kt (11%)Germany693 kt (11%)Poland486 kt (8%)Belgium362 kt (6%)Spain317 kt (5%)Austria282 kt (4%)Slovenia250 kt (4%)Other EU (17)1.98 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 (31) | Other EU (17) | 1,278,957 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 404,000 | 33.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | France | 369,000 | 30.8% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 363,710 | 52.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 331,700 | 91.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Netherlands | 303,478 | 42.1% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | Slovenia | 250,000 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Austria | 221,608 | 78.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 189,846 | 39.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (17) | 184,663 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (17) | 179,745 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 164,613 | 22.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 153,351 | 22.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Poland | 143,050 | 29.4% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | France | 143,000 | 11.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Spain | 133,661 | 42.2% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (17) | 131,306 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Germany | 113,255 | 16.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (17) | 111,973 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Netherlands | 109,743 | 15.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 100,000 | 8.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 98,325 | 20.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (17) | 92,733 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 90,000 | 7.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 89,822 | 28.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | 79,452 | 11.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Spain | 73,491 | 23.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 63,815 | 8.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Germany | 62,534 | 9.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | Austria | 60,210 | 21.4% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | France | 59,000 | 4.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 54,940 | 11.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 33,000 | 2.8% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Germany | Belgium | 16,300 | 4.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Belgium | 12,300 | 3.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Spain | 9,997 | 3.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Spain | 9,732 | 3.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Belgium | 2,000 | 0.6% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
Source & method
Source Period 2024-02 (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
- 2024-02 (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 2024-02, 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: 2024-02 (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.