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 2026, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,497 kt of jet fuel; the largest origins outside the EU were Saudi Arabia (17%), Kuwait (15%) and the United Arab Emirates (6%), and 35% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
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Country it was last shipped from
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- France
- Spain
- Sweden
- Belgium
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuwait | Netherlands | 220,707 | 43.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (26) | Other EU (16) | 196,802 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | 145,527 | 28.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (26) | France | 130,000 | 52.0% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 116,900 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (16) | 86,112 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Greece | Spain | 61,874 | 51.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 56,336 | 11.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 54,282 | 45.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Spain | 52,458 | 43.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 50,374 | 10.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Arab Emirates | France | 49,000 | 19.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | France | 42,000 | 16.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Arab Emirates | Sweden | 41,065 | 34.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Greece | Other EU (16) | 33,210 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Other EU (16) | 32,592 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (26) | Netherlands | 29,782 | 5.9% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (16) | 27,759 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Sweden | 13,241 | 11.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 13,000 | 5.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (26) | Sweden | 9,758 | 8.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | France | 9,000 | 3.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Other EU (16) | 7,500 | 24.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (26) | Spain | 6,680 | 5.5% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Belgium | France | 6,000 | 2.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (16) | 3,708 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | France | 1,000 | 0.4% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
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
- 2026-01 (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 the fuel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined.
Left: the country the jet fuel 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 2026-01, 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: 2026-01 (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, Finland, Germany, Greece, 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): 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.