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 2025, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,023 kt of heating and other gasoil; the largest origins outside the EU were Norway (8%), and 75% came from other EU member states, with 3% not attributed to any country.
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Country it was last shipped from
- Colour = importing country:
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Denmark
- Finland
- Spain
- Other EU (16)
- 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 (27) | Other EU (16) | 113,488 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Other EU (16) | 98,611 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 94,491 | 72.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (16) | 88,884 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 74,874 | 41.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 68,458 | 38.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Finland | 66,000 | 64.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Denmark | 60,000 | 48.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | Denmark | 46,000 | 36.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (16) | 35,662 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Germany | 32,381 | 18.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (16) | 28,484 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Gibraltar | Spain | 27,687 | 31.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (16) | 24,780 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (27) | Spain | 21,195 | 23.8% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (27) | Finland | 21,000 | 20.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Finland | 16,000 | 15.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Spain | 13,095 | 14.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Spain | 12,965 | 14.6% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other origins (27) | Netherlands | 12,369 | 9.4% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 11,420 | 8.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 11,209 | 8.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Denmark | 10,000 | 8.0% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Belgium | Spain | 9,286 | 10.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Denmark | 7,000 | 5.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Italy | Spain | 4,811 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (16) | 4,001 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (27) | Germany | 2,740 | 1.5% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 1,560 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | Other EU (16) | 1,112 | 6.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 1,014 | 0.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (27) | Denmark | 1,000 | 0.8% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Germany | Denmark | 1,000 | 0.8% | 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
- 2025-04 (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 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 2025-04, 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: 2025-04 (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: Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, 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): 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.