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 November 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 3,661 kt of fuel oil; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (13%) and Gibraltar (5%), and 61% 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 (Nov 2024)
478.6 thousand tonnes
13% of reported EU fuel oil imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Netherlands449 kt (94%)
- Spain18 kt (4%)
- Germany12 kt (2%)
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 (34) | Netherlands | 868,572 | 39.8% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 464,368 | 21.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 448,624 | 20.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Spain | 354,442 | 68.8% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 232,287 | 10.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 228,500 | 90.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Netherlands | 168,414 | 7.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Malta | 146,118 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (34) | Other EU (12) | 118,453 | — | Summed by usSum of 12 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (34) | Cyprus | 97,547 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (34) | Italy | 89,493 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Spain | 63,518 | 12.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | France | 62,000 | 68.1% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (34) | Germany | 53,678 | 67.4% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (12) | 52,704 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Spain | 33,881 | 6.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Spain | 27,344 | 5.3% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| France | Other EU (12) | 25,755 | 33.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 23,000 | 25.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Belgium | 21,800 | 8.6% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Spain | 18,000 | 3.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Spain | 17,958 | 3.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 11,948 | 15.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Other EU (12) | 10,000 | 15.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 7,765 | 9.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 6,233 | 7.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 4,000 | 4.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Belgium | 2,000 | 0.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 2,000 | 2.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (12) | 1,000 | 1.5% | 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
- 2024-11 (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 2024-11, 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: 2024-11 (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, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, 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.