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 2,432 kt of jet fuel; the largest origins outside the EU were Kuwait (27%), the United Arab Emirates (14%) and India (7%), and 35% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
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Where the oil was produced
- 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 | 395,708 | 83.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | France | 272,000 | 44.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Netherlands | 249,416 | 57.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (21) | Other EU (15) | 212,713 | — | Summed by usSum of 12 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Arab Emirates | France | 157,000 | 25.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Belgium | 111,100 | 72.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (21) | France | 108,000 | 17.8% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Arab Emirates | Italy | 99,258 | 44.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (21) | Ireland | 95,732 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (21) | Netherlands | 88,395 | 20.3% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (21) | Germany | 75,995 | 16.1% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Arab Emirates | Netherlands | 74,726 | 17.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (21) | Italy | 67,209 | 30.3% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Egypt | Slovenia | 67,000 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | France | 64,000 | 10.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 62,395 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Other EU (15) | 52,000 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Egypt | Italy | 29,872 | 13.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (15) | 26,917 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| India | Italy | 25,248 | 11.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 24,300 | 15.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| India | Netherlands | 22,393 | 5.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (21) | Belgium | 18,700 | 12.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kuwait | Other EU (15) | 15,000 | 53.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Egypt | Other EU (15) | 10,803 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 4,000 | 0.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 2,000 | 0.3% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (15) | 23 | 0.7% | 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
- 2024-04 (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 jet fuel 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: Greece, Lithuania, Poland, 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.