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 July 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,234 kt of jet fuel; the largest origins outside the EU were Kuwait (16%), India (11%) and China (9%), and 39% came from other EU member states.
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Where the oil was produced
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
Total jet fuel imports reported (Jul 2024)
168.2 thousand tonnes
8% of reported EU jet fuel imports
Official
Top origin countries
- India128 kt (76%)
- Other origins (27)40 kt (24%)
- Kuwaitless than 0.1 kt (<1%)
Source: Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | Germany | 452,858 | 84.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (27) | Italy | 281,211 | 68.3% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (27) | Other EU (15) | 223,641 | — | Summed by usSum of 14 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Kuwait | France | 203,000 | 55.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Spain | 128,195 | 76.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Ireland | 119,653 | 91.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| China | France | 99,000 | 27.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| China | Italy | 98,535 | 23.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Netherlands | 93,191 | 56.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (27) | Germany | 82,372 | 15.4% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| India | Other EU (15) | 52,008 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Kuwait | Denmark | 52,000 | 62.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (27) | France | 47,000 | 12.9% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 46,300 | 65.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (27) | Spain | 40,031 | 23.8% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| India | Netherlands | 36,575 | 22.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Italy | 32,207 | 7.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (27) | Denmark | 31,000 | 37.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins (27) | Netherlands | 30,865 | 18.7% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (15) | 20,272 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 15,000 | 4.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Belgium | 14,900 | 21.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (27) | Ireland | 10,556 | 8.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (27) | Belgium | 9,100 | 12.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| China | Other EU (15) | 5,577 | 24.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Other EU (15) | 4,492 | 42.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 3,997 | 2.4% | 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
- 2024-07 (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 jet fuel was produced. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2024-07, 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: 2024-07 (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: Finland, Greece, Lithuania, Poland. 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.