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 September 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 8,062 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (8%) and Saudi Arabia (6%), and 63% came from other EU member states, with 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Netherlands1.56 Mt (19%)Belgium764 kt (9%)Germany735 kt (9%)United States655 kt (8%)Italy556 kt (7%)Saudi Arabia523 kt (6%)United Arab Emirates396 kt (5%)Kuwait334 kt (4%)Other origins (32)2.46 Mt (31%)Origin not reported75 kt (<1%)France1.43 Mt (18%)Germany1.16 Mt (14%)Netherlands777 kt (10%)Poland535 kt (7%)Spain532 kt (7%)Other EU (20)3.63 Mt (45%)
Tap a country to follow its flows. Tap it again, or use the close button, to clear.
Where the oil was produced
- Colour = importing country:
- France
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Spain
- 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 (32) | Other EU (20) | 1,504,432 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 584,922 | 50.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (20) | 500,327 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (20) | 473,928 | — | Summed by usSum of 11 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Other EU (20) | 462,341 | — | Summed by usSum of 8 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | France | 388,000 | 27.2% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (20) | 288,839 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 271,355 | 23.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 240,941 | 31.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 212,000 | 14.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Arab Emirates | France | 203,000 | 14.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 187,393 | 35.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Spain | 174,297 | 32.8% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Poland | 173,509 | 32.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Germany | 155,099 | 13.4% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | Netherlands | 154,402 | 19.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Kuwait | France | 152,000 | 10.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 150,562 | 28.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Germany | 144,083 | 12.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 141,000 | 9.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 140,000 | 9.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | 136,944 | 17.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Arab Emirates | Netherlands | 122,029 | 15.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Other EU (20) | 111,632 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Other EU (20) | 110,207 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 97,000 | 6.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 96,337 | 12.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Spain | 93,666 | 17.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 90,875 | 17.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Poland | 85,038 | 15.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United Arab Emirates | Other EU (20) | 71,438 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Other EU (20) | 70,430 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | France | 61,000 | 4.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (20) | 40,895 | 8.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United States | Spain | 40,857 | 7.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Spain | 35,491 | 6.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Poland | 34,802 | 6.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 34,000 | 2.4% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Germany | Netherlands | 26,553 | 3.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
Source & method
Source Period 2024-09 (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
- 2024-09 (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 2024-09, 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: 2024-09 (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.