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 August 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,490 kt of LPG; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (28%), Norway (19%) and Algeria (13%), and 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Netherlands | 174,389 | 61.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Other EU (18) | 114,957 | — | Summed by usSum of 17 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Belgium | 99,700 | 48.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Poland | 93,655 | 46.9% | Summed by usSum of 9 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Italy | 90,400 | 57.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Poland | 75,350 | 37.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Belgium | 69,100 | 33.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 67,000 | 42.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Netherlands | 62,764 | 22.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Sweden | 54,787 | 55.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Other EU (18) | 48,958 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (34) | Netherlands | 47,035 | 16.6% | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Spain | 46,449 | 56.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 44,000 | 27.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Sweden | 44,000 | 44.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | France | 43,000 | 27.0% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 42,666 | 49.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Germany | 42,108 | 49.0% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Spain | 31,133 | 37.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Italy | 27,369 | 17.5% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 24,600 | 11.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Italy | 22,759 | 14.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Other EU (18) | 22,000 | 95.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Poland | 17,885 | 9.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Italy | 15,829 | 10.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Belgium | 14,300 | 6.9% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Other EU (18) | 13,254 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Other EU (18) | 9,510 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Poland | 7,687 | 3.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (18) | 7,308 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Poland | 5,146 | 2.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Spain | 4,867 | 5.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 3,000 | 1.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 2,000 | 1.3% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Norway | Germany | 1,242 | 1.4% | 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
- 2024-08 (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 2024-08, 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: 2024-08 (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.