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 October 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 3,165 kt of fuel oil; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (18%), and 67% 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 fuel oil imports reported (Oct 2024)
514.7 thousand tonnes
16% of reported EU fuel oil imports
Official
Top origin countries
- Other origins (31)237 kt (46%)
- Italy149 kt (29%)
- Netherlands47 kt (9%)
and 3 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 (31) | Netherlands | 678,657 | 40.9% | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 511,055 | 30.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 328,814 | 19.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Spain | 236,725 | 46.0% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 218,700 | 65.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Spain | 149,118 | 29.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 142,667 | 8.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Other EU (11) | 135,076 | — | Summed by usSum of 10 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | Greece | 91,023 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | Malta | 87,877 | 60.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 58,800 | 17.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Malta | 56,414 | 39.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Belgium | 53,500 | 15.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (11) | 52,193 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Spain | 46,942 | 9.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Spain | 45,760 | 8.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Denmark | 43,000 | 56.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Italy | 40,332 | 54.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | France | 40,000 | 59.7% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Italy | 33,071 | 45.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Denmark | 33,000 | 43.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 20,000 | 29.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Spain | 18,195 | 3.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Germany | Spain | 17,959 | 3.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (11) | 11,921 | 18.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 4,500 | 1.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 4,000 | 6.0% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Netherlands | France | 2,000 | 3.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (11) | 1,969 | 3.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 1,000 | 1.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (11) | 354 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
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
- 2024-10 (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 2024-10, 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: 2024-10 (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: Czechia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland, 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.