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 December 2023, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,015 kt of LPG; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (36%), Algeria (13%) and Norway (13%), and 19% 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 (Dec 2023)
259.3 thousand tonnes
13% of reported EU LPG imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Belgium116 kt (45%)
- Sweden78 kt (30%)
- Netherlands21 kt (8%)
and 3 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 | Netherlands | 296,068 | 76.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Italy | 156,939 | 56.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 147,000 | 50.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Other EU (18) | 134,506 | — | Summed by usSum of 17 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Belgium | 118,000 | 46.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Belgium | 115,500 | 45.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Poland | 98,432 | 47.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Poland | 85,374 | 41.2% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | Germany | 79,280 | 84.5% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Sweden | 78,133 | 65.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Italy | 76,083 | 27.5% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Other EU (18) | 63,481 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | France | 58,000 | 19.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Other EU (18) | 47,931 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Italy | 43,703 | 15.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | France | 41,000 | 13.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Spain | 37,803 | 46.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 35,771 | 9.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Spain | 34,582 | 42.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Netherlands | 33,878 | 8.8% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | France | 32,000 | 10.9% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (18) | 29,681 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Sweden | 22,169 | 18.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Belgium | 21,400 | 8.4% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Netherlands | 20,705 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Other EU (18) | 19,499 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Sweden | 19,488 | 16.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | France | 16,000 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Poland | 12,779 | 6.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Germany | 10,512 | 11.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Spain | 9,339 | 11.4% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Other EU (18) | 5,694 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Poland | 5,289 | 2.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 5,115 | 2.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 3,143 | 3.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Germany | 918 | 1.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
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
- 2023-12 (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 2023-12, 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: 2023-12 (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.