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 September 2023, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,636 kt of LPG; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (37%), Algeria (13%) and the Russia (9%), and 23% 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)
Total to EU member states (Sep 2023)
205.8 thousand tonnes
13% of reported EU LPG imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Italy92 kt (45%)
- France74 kt (36%)
- Spain30 kt (14%)
and 1 more in the table above
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Sweden | 167,308 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 158,401 | 59.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Other EU (18) | 110,989 | — | Summed by usSum of 17 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Belgium | 106,300 | 56.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Poland | 99,345 | 45.0% | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Russia | Poland | 96,435 | 43.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Italy | 92,070 | 53.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 83,000 | 37.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Italy | 80,731 | 46.7% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | France | 74,000 | 33.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Netherlands | 55,176 | 20.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 52,706 | 61.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Netherlands | 52,695 | 19.8% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (33) | France | 50,000 | 22.4% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Spain | 47,948 | 56.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Other EU (18) | 46,460 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Belgium | 43,900 | 23.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (18) | 37,529 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (33) | Germany | 30,690 | 35.5% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Spain | 29,537 | 35.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 23,200 | 12.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Belgium | 16,200 | 8.5% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | France | 15,000 | 6.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Other EU (18) | 12,000 | 48.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Poland | 11,313 | 5.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Other EU (18) | 10,203 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Poland | 9,381 | 4.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (18) | 8,146 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (33) | Spain | 6,964 | 8.2% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Poland | 3,901 | 1.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Germany | 2,127 | 2.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 1,000 | 0.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Germany | 828 | 1.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Poland | 379 | 0.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
2 flows with a share under 0.1% are not listed here. They are 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
- 2023-09 (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 LPG was produced. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2023-09, 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: 2023-09 (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: Luxembourg. 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.