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 June 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 7,862 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were Saudi Arabia (10%) and India (7%), and 63% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
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Country it was last shipped from
- Colour = importing country:
- France
- Germany
- Poland
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Other EU (20)
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
- Reported; colour = country last shipped from
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
The numbers as a table
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other origins (34) | Other EU (20) | 1,519,308 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (20) | 722,095 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 496,016 | 48.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (20) | 481,639 | — | Summed by usSum of 9 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 437,000 | 32.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (20) | 346,144 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | France | 296,000 | 22.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Italy | Other EU (20) | 281,524 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Spain | 276,299 | 45.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Spain | 232,268 | 38.2% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| India | Germany | 208,868 | 20.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Netherlands | 203,467 | 33.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Germany | Poland | 188,029 | 28.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Poland | 162,447 | 24.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 156,705 | 25.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| India | Netherlands | 156,330 | 25.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 151,872 | 22.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 150,863 | 14.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Germany | 150,740 | 14.6% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 141,000 | 10.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 126,000 | 9.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | France | 125,000 | 9.4% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Poland | 124,439 | 18.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (20) | 113,806 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Other EU (20) | 108,171 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | France | 95,000 | 7.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| India | France | 82,000 | 6.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| India | Spain | 43,152 | 7.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Poland | 38,324 | 5.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 35,216 | 5.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 33,086 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Spain | Netherlands | 30,577 | 5.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Germany | 27,151 | 2.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 27,031 | 4.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 24,000 | 1.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| India | Other EU (20) | 24,000 | 7.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (20) | 20,095 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Spain | 16,620 | 2.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Spain | 6,842 | 1.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 2,000 | 0.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
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
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
- 2024-06 (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 the fuel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined.
Left: the country the road diesel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2024-06, 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: 2024-06 (requested; 27 of 27 member states reported). Energy basis: the country the fuel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined, 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): for refined products, the country the fuel was last shipped from, as each EU member state reports it; it may be a trading hub rather than where the fuel was refined. The customs basis is not mixed in.
- Imports from other EU member states may be fuel refined there or fuel only shipped on from elsewhere; they are grouped separately.
- 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.