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 January 2026, all 27 EU member states reported importing 3,370 kt of fuel oil; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (8%), and 72% 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 (Jan 2026)
255.4 thousand tonnes
8% of reported EU fuel oil imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Netherlands199 kt (78%)
- Belgium31 kt (12%)
- Denmark15 kt (6%)
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 | 1,086,454 | 56.0% | Summed by usSum of 8 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (39) | Spain | 367,677 | 88.0% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 304,500 | 90.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 255,551 | 13.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Greece | Netherlands | 243,193 | 12.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 199,461 | 10.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (39) | Other EU (9) | 165,238 | — | Summed by usSum of 9 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Netherlands | 156,769 | 8.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (39) | Cyprus | 105,228 | 98.5% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (39) | France | 99,000 | 92.5% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (39) | Italy | 69,784 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 57,792 | 51.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (39) | Germany | 52,350 | 46.2% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (39) | Denmark | 37,219 | 38.4% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Spain | 32,673 | 7.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Denmark | 31,403 | 32.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 31,300 | 9.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Denmark | 14,607 | 15.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Denmark | 13,696 | 14.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Spain | 9,956 | 2.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (9) | 7,950 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Spain | 7,501 | 1.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (9) | 5,296 | 8.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 5,000 | 4.7% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Belgium | Germany | 3,143 | 2.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 2,700 | 0.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 2,000 | 1.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Greece | Cyprus | 1,581 | 1.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 1,000 | 0.9% | 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
- 2026-01 (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 2026-01, 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: 2026-01 (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, Finland, Ireland, 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.