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 January 2026, all 27 EU member states reported importing 7,013 kt of road diesel; the largest origins outside the EU were Saudi Arabia (17%) and the United States (10%), and 61% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
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Where the oil was produced
- Colour = importing country:
- France
- Germany
- Poland
- Netherlands
- Italy
- Other EU (19)
- 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 (19) | 1,230,804 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 646,000 | 46.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (19) | 495,095 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 480,858 | 55.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (19) | 399,873 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 365,401 | 62.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Other EU (19) | 313,036 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Italy | 300,172 | 73.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 238,000 | 17.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 227,650 | 34.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | France | 193,000 | 13.9% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Germany | 188,884 | 21.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (19) | 184,112 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (19) | 183,645 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Poland | 174,023 | 26.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | France | 164,000 | 11.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 147,238 | 17.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Poland | 126,692 | 19.4% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Other EU (19) | 125,107 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | France | 105,000 | 7.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 102,237 | 17.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Italy | 98,816 | 24.3% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Other EU (19) | 96,701 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Poland | 88,848 | 13.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (19) | 87,781 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | Netherlands | 65,017 | 11.1% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 41,910 | 7.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Poland | 34,748 | 5.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Germany | 33,504 | 3.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 31,000 | 2.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Netherlands | 13,102 | 2.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 12,000 | 0.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 10,001 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Italy | 7,793 | 1.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (19) | 69 | 0.1% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
4 flows with a share under 0.1% are not listed here. They are 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
- 2026-01 (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 2026-01, 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: 2026-01 (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.