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 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,394 kt of heating and other gasoil; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (11%), Qatar (8%) and Norway (6%), and 59% 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)
- 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 (32) | Other EU (16) | 187,174 | — | Summed by usSum of 15 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | Netherlands | 156,659 | 58.1% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Denmark | 121,000 | 47.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Finland | 93,000 | 59.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 89,089 | 43.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 69,250 | 33.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Denmark | 61,000 | 23.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | France | 57,000 | 42.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 55,664 | 20.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Qatar | Netherlands | 47,278 | 17.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Austria | 43,343 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | Germany | 42,757 | 21.0% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | Spain | 42,581 | 81.5% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Qatar | Finland | 42,000 | 26.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (16) | 36,037 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | Denmark | 31,000 | 12.1% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 25,900 | 52.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Denmark | 24,000 | 9.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 24,000 | 18.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 24,000 | 18.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Belgium | 23,400 | 47.5% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 22,000 | 16.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Qatar | Denmark | 18,000 | 7.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Finland | 14,000 | 8.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 10,254 | 3.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Spain | 9,147 | 17.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Netherlands | Finland | 8,000 | 5.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (16) | 5,311 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | France | 4,000 | 3.0% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United States | Germany | 2,375 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | France | 2,000 | 1.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Denmark | 1,000 | 0.4% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Qatar | Other EU (16) | 916 | 4.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 500 | 1.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Qatar | Germany | 493 | 0.2% | 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
- 2024-08 (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 heating and other gasoil was produced. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2024-08, 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: 2024-08 (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: Hungary, Poland, Romania. 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.