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 January 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,854 kt of jet fuel; the largest origins outside the EU were India (13%), Kuwait (13%) and Saudi Arabia (6%), and 42% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
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Where the oil was produced
- Colour = importing country:
- France
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Italy
- Ireland
- Other EU (15)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | Germany | 390,321 | 87.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Other EU (15) | 223,693 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| India | France | 120,000 | 24.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Netherlands | 112,558 | 47.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Oman | France | 98,000 | 19.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Arab Emirates | France | 95,000 | 19.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | France | 92,000 | 18.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Greece | Italy | 86,337 | 46.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Ireland | 83,570 | 73.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | 65,869 | 27.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Italy | 63,190 | 34.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | France | 55,000 | 11.1% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (22) | Germany | 54,380 | 12.2% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (15) | 45,000 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Other EU (15) | 39,845 | 82.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Netherlands | 36,407 | 15.4% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (15) | 35,785 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (22) | Italy | 34,607 | 18.8% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 34,000 | 6.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Other EU (15) | 33,000 | 42.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Netherlands | 22,192 | 9.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Ireland | 21,017 | 18.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Ireland | 9,872 | 8.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Greece | Other EU (15) | 1,010 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 1,000 | 0.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
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
- 2024-01 (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 2024-01, 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: 2024-01 (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: Estonia, Finland, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, 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): 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.