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 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,625 kt of heating and other gasoil; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (8%), Qatar (8%) and India (6%), and 57% came from other EU member states, with 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Month
United States131 kt (8%)Qatar129 kt (8%)India105 kt (6%)United Kingdom66 kt (4%)United Arab Emirates55 kt (3%)Other origins outside the EU212 kt (13%)Netherlands199 kt (12%)Belgium189 kt (12%)Sweden169 kt (10%)Portugal77 kt (5%)Germany66 kt (4%)France66 kt (4%)Spain57 kt (3%)Other EU member states95 kt (6%)Origin not reported9.5 kt (<1%)Netherlands301 kt (18%)Denmark291 kt (18%)Finland277 kt (17%)France233 kt (14%)Germany155 kt (10%)Spain84 kt (5%)Belgium59 kt (4%)Austria40 kt (2%)Cyprus33 kt (2%)Malta32 kt (2%)Bulgaria23 kt (1%)Luxembourg17 kt (1%)Ireland16 kt (<1%)Slovenia15 kt (<1%)Sweden13 kt (<1%)Portugal9.5 kt (<1%)Estonia7.0 kt (<1%)Greece6.6 kt (<1%)Croatia5.5 kt (<1%)Czechia3.0 kt (<1%)Latvia3.0 kt (<1%)Poland1.0 kt (<1%)Slovakia0.5 kt (<1%)Lithuania0.2 kt (<1%)
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Where the oil was produced
- United States131 kt (8%)
- Qatar129 kt (8%)
- India105 kt (6%)
- United Kingdom66 kt (4%)
- United Arab Emirates55 kt (3%)
- Other origins outside the EU212 kt (13%)
- Netherlands199 kt (12%)
- Belgium189 kt (12%)
- Sweden169 kt (10%)
- Portugal77 kt (5%)
- Germany66 kt (4%)
- France66 kt (4%)
- Spain57 kt (3%)
- Other EU member states95 kt (6%)
- Origin not reported9.5 kt (<1%)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | Netherlands | 104,586 | 34.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Finland | 95,000 | 34.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 86,156 | 55.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Portugal | Finland | 77,000 | 27.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Denmark | 74,000 | 25.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Denmark | 69,000 | 23.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 68,000 | 29.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 61,323 | 20.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Qatar | Netherlands | 48,664 | 16.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 46,928 | 30.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Netherlands | 40,299 | 13.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Qatar | Denmark | 39,000 | 13.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Qatar | Finland | 39,000 | 14.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Denmark | 38,000 | 13.1% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United States | France | 38,000 | 16.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | France | 37,000 | 15.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Denmark | 35,000 | 12.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Finland | 33,000 | 11.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Belgium | 32,500 | 55.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Spain | 31,717 | 37.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Spain | 29,979 | 35.8% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United Kingdom | France | 29,000 | 12.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Arab Emirates | Denmark | 28,000 | 9.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Cyprus | 27,844 | 83.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 26,500 | 44.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Austria | 23,313 | 58.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Bulgaria | 23,175 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Spain | Malta | 23,170 | 72.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Arab Emirates | France | 20,000 | 8.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 19,000 | 8.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Netherlands | 18,867 | 6.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Finland | 18,000 | 6.5% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Austria | 16,666 | 41.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United Kingdom | Ireland | 16,123 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Germany | 15,839 | 10.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | France | 15,000 | 6.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Finland | 15,000 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Luxembourg | 13,214 | 79.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Slovenia | 13,000 | 86.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United Kingdom | Spain | 12,049 | 14.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 11,568 | 3.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Portugal | 9,529 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Malta | 8,926 | 27.8% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Sweden | 8,726 | 65.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Germany | Denmark | 8,000 | 2.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 7,736 | 2.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 7,592 | 2.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Spain | 7,530 | 9.0% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other EU member states | Estonia | 7,000 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United Arab Emirates | Greece | 6,600 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Croatia | 5,538 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins outside the EU | Cyprus | 5,328 | 16.1% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Spain | France | 5,000 | 2.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 3,721 | 27.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Luxembourg | 3,314 | 20.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Latvia | 2,996 | 99.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Spain | 2,501 | 3.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Czechia | 2,000 | 66.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Slovenia | 2,000 | 13.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Origin not reported | France | 2,000 | 0.9% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United States | Germany | 1,866 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Germany | 1,809 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Qatar | Germany | 1,487 | 1.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 1,028 | 0.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Czechia | 1,000 | 33.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Poland | 1,000 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Qatar | Sweden | 941 | 7.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Slovakia | 492 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Lithuania | 200 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins outside the EU | Latvia | 4 | 0.1% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
4 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
Source Period 2024-04 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:22 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyDownload CSV
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
- 2024-04 (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 where the oil was produced.
Left: where the heating and other gasoil was produced. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2024-04, 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: 2024-04 (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, Italy, 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.