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 August 2025, all 27 EU member states reported importing 3,197 kt of fuel oil; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (8%) and Kuwait (8%), 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 (Aug 2025)
289.2 thousand tonnes
9% of reported EU fuel oil imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Belgium166 kt (57%)
- Other EU (9)53 kt (18%)
- Spain47 kt (16%)
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 (25) | Netherlands | 563,439 | 30.3% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Netherlands | 504,840 | 27.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 340,897 | 18.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (25) | Spain | 330,865 | 70.6% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Kuwait | Netherlands | 252,449 | 13.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 197,687 | 10.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 165,700 | 89.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (25) | Other EU (9) | 153,641 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (25) | Germany | 105,737 | 93.7% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (25) | Cyprus | 88,988 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (25) | Malta | 80,837 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (25) | Greece | 68,805 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (9) | 52,878 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Spain | 47,122 | 10.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Denmark | 47,000 | 45.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Spain | 37,630 | 8.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (25) | Denmark | 32,000 | 30.8% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | Spain | 24,244 | 5.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United Kingdom | Spain | 21,031 | 4.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 19,200 | 10.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Denmark | 17,000 | 16.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (9) | 16,414 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Spain | 7,535 | 1.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Denmark | 7,000 | 6.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 6,474 | 5.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (9) | 3,000 | 4.9% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Germany | Other EU (9) | 2,211 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | Denmark | 1,000 | 1.0% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Belgium | Germany | 664 | 0.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (25) | Belgium | 400 | 0.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
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
- 2025-08 (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 2025-08, 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: 2025-08 (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, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, 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.