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 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 8,286 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were Saudi Arabia (7%), India (7%) and the United States (6%), and 59% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Netherlands1.28 Mt (15%)Belgium807 kt (10%)Germany798 kt (10%)Italy566 kt (7%)Saudi Arabia563 kt (7%)India540 kt (7%)United States526 kt (6%)Kuwait463 kt (6%)Other origins (31)2.74 Mt (33%)Origin not reported1.0 kt (<1%)France1.55 Mt (19%)Germany1.11 Mt (13%)Netherlands824 kt (10%)Belgium631 kt (8%)Poland608 kt (7%)Other EU (20)3.56 Mt (43%)
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Where the oil was produced
- Colour = importing country:
- France
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Poland
- Other EU (20)
- 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 (20) | 1,835,930 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (20) | 516,177 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Other EU (20) | 501,127 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | France | 418,000 | 26.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 412,204 | 37.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 341,900 | 54.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Netherlands | 286,610 | 34.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (20) | 286,170 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | Netherlands | 254,909 | 30.9% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 249,167 | 22.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 221,000 | 14.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | France | 209,000 | 13.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 198,727 | 32.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 188,000 | 12.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Germany | 176,625 | 15.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 168,051 | 20.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 165,000 | 10.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 143,000 | 9.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (20) | 141,966 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | Germany | 137,420 | 12.4% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Kuwait | Belgium | 133,800 | 21.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 106,779 | 17.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Belgium | 103,200 | 16.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Poland | 101,703 | 16.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | France | 100,000 | 6.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (20) | 99,868 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Kuwait | Other EU (20) | 97,998 | 32.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Poland | 92,981 | 15.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Poland | 75,308 | 12.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Germany | 69,917 | 6.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | France | 65,000 | 4.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Germany | 64,078 | 5.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Netherlands | 61,783 | 7.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Other EU (20) | 44,619 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | France | 43,000 | 2.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Belgium | 41,500 | 6.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (20) | 37,287 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Poland | 32,724 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 31,702 | 3.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 20,806 | 2.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 8,400 | 1.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Belgium | 2,000 | 0.3% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
One flow with a share under 0.1% is not listed here. It is still counted in every total and drawn in the diagram, and the CSV under Source & method lists every flow.
Source & method
Source Period 2024-04 (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
- 2024-04 (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 2024-04, 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: 2024-04 (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.