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 July 2025, all 27 EU member states reported importing 3,243 kt of fuel oil; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (6%) and Mexico (5%), and 70% came from other EU member states, with 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 (Jul 2025)
315.5 thousand tonnes
10% of reported EU fuel oil imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Netherlands156 kt (50%)
- Belgium80 kt (25%)
- Other EU (12)35 kt (11%)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | Netherlands | 503,422 | 32.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Netherlands | 493,108 | 31.6% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | Spain | 273,994 | 61.1% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 222,644 | 14.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Other EU (12) | 221,647 | — | Summed by usSum of 10 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 184,601 | 11.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 175,300 | 66.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 156,302 | 10.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Greece | 143,958 | 90.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | Germany | 121,123 | 80.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Belgium | 79,700 | 30.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Malta | 77,003 | 82.6% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Spain | 67,881 | 15.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 63,000 | 57.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 55,311 | 12.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Denmark | 53,000 | 39.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Denmark | 49,000 | 36.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (12) | 42,495 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | France | 36,000 | 33.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (12) | 35,066 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Spain | 28,467 | 6.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (12) | 23,977 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | Spain | 22,811 | 5.1% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Germany | Denmark | 16,000 | 11.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Greece | 15,972 | 10.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Denmark | 15,000 | 11.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 14,882 | 9.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 13,299 | 8.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Malta | 12,908 | 13.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Belgium | 7,300 | 2.8% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 6,000 | 5.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 4,000 | 3.7% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Netherlands | Malta | 3,348 | 3.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Germany | 2,032 | 1.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Denmark | 2,000 | 1.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
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
- 2025-07 (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 2025-07, 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: 2025-07 (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: Croatia, Czechia, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania, 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.