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 April 2026, all 27 EU member states reported importing 3,134 kt of fuel oil, and 81% came from other EU member states, with 1% not attributed to any country.
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Country it was last shipped from
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Belgium
- France
- Malta
- Other EU (14)
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
- Reported; colour = country last shipped from
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
The numbers as a table
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other origins (33) | Netherlands | 434,975 | 25.7% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Estonia | Netherlands | 355,162 | 21.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 301,673 | 17.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 268,400 | 83.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Denmark | Netherlands | 216,631 | 12.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Other EU (14) | 195,636 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 188,298 | 11.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| France | Netherlands | 182,538 | 10.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Gibraltar | Spain | 135,183 | 31.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Spain | 123,530 | 29.0% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (33) | France | 111,000 | 82.8% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Other EU (14) | 79,538 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Spain | 73,461 | 17.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| France | Spain | 54,827 | 12.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Malta | 50,523 | 40.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Malta | 40,923 | 32.8% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Spain | 39,209 | 9.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (14) | 36,798 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| France | Other EU (14) | 35,942 | 29.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Belgium | 32,700 | 10.1% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Other EU (14) | 26,508 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (14) | 25,560 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Malta | 24,585 | 19.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| France | Belgium | 22,400 | 6.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 16,000 | 11.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (14) | 16,000 | 64.0% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Italy | Netherlands | 12,587 | 0.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Denmark | Other EU (14) | 12,229 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Malta | 8,689 | 7.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 6,000 | 4.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Estonia | Other EU (14) | 5,440 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 1,000 | 0.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, 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
- 2026-04 (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 the fuel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined.
Left: the country the fuel oil was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2026-04, 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: 2026-04 (requested; 27 of 27 member states reported). Energy basis: the country the fuel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined, as each EU member state reports it (Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm).
Not in the diagram: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, 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): for refined products, the country the fuel was last shipped from, as each EU member state reports it; it may be a trading hub rather than where the fuel was refined. The customs basis is not mixed in.
- Imports from other EU member states may be fuel refined there or fuel only shipped on from elsewhere; they are grouped separately.
- 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.