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 March 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,123 kt of heating and other gasoil, and 67% 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
- France
- Finland
- Denmark
- Germany
- Other EU (17)
- 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 (22) | Other EU (17) | 132,492 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (22) | Netherlands | 115,579 | 39.5% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Finland | 100,000 | 76.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 93,088 | 31.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 74,526 | 25.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 54,984 | 58.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Denmark | 54,000 | 44.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Gibraltar | Other EU (17) | 44,761 | 57.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (17) | 43,805 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Other EU (17) | 38,979 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 35,000 | 22.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 32,422 | 34.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Egypt | France | 30,000 | 19.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Denmark | 29,000 | 23.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Spain | France | 28,000 | 18.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Denmark | 27,000 | 22.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 25,000 | 16.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Finland | 24,000 | 18.3% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 24,000 | 15.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (17) | 23,130 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Egypt | Other EU (17) | 17,181 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (17) | 14,047 | 81.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (17) | 11,826 | 73.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 10,000 | 6.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 9,132 | 3.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Denmark | 7,000 | 5.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Finland | 7,000 | 5.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (17) | 5,137 | 6.6% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other origins (22) | Germany | 3,647 | 3.9% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Denmark | 3,000 | 2.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Germany | 2,218 | 2.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Denmark | 1,000 | 0.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Denmark | 1,000 | 0.8% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Origin not reported | France | 1,000 | 0.7% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
2 flows with a share under 0.1% are not listed here. They are 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
- 2024-03 (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 heating and other gasoil 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 2024-03, 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: 2024-03 (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: Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia. 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.