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 March 2026, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,971 kt of fuel oil; the largest origins outside the EU were Gibraltar (8%), and 78% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
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Where the oil was produced
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
Total to EU member states (Mar 2026)
380.6 thousand tonnes
13% of reported EU fuel oil imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Netherlands331 kt (87%)
- Germany20 kt (5%)
- Other EU (10)15 kt (4%)
and 2 more in the table above
Source: Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
- 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 (39) | Netherlands | 753,484 | 47.0% | Summed by usSum of 8 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 331,408 | 20.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (39) | Spain | 325,340 | 70.5% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 260,900 | 97.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 219,742 | 13.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 179,705 | 11.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Netherlands | 118,573 | 7.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (39) | Greece | 76,185 | 56.7% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (39) | Other EU (10) | 75,891 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (39) | France | 67,000 | 79.8% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Italy | Spain | 65,887 | 14.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (39) | Malta | 62,918 | 82.8% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Greece | 58,168 | 43.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (39) | Germany | 46,103 | 45.4% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (10) | 43,451 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (10) | 37,147 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (39) | Cyprus | 36,599 | 51.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Italy | Cyprus | 33,952 | 48.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Spain | 32,990 | 7.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Germany | 30,375 | 29.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 30,017 | 6.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 19,984 | 19.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (10) | 15,202 | 23.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 11,000 | 13.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Malta | 10,067 | 13.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Spain | 7,500 | 1.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 6,000 | 7.1% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 5,177 | 5.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 4,200 | 1.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Malta | 3,021 | 4.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (39) | Belgium | 1,700 | 0.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Sweden | Other EU (10) | 1,386 | 2.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (10) | 324 | 4.7% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
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
- 2026-03 (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 fuel oil was produced. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2026-03, 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: 2026-03 (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: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia. 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.