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 2023, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,777 kt of LPG; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (36%), Algeria (12%) and Norway (10%), and 21% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
United States640 kt (36%)Algeria212 kt (12%)Norway173 kt (10%)United Kingdom158 kt (9%)Russia136 kt (8%)Other origins (35)455 kt (26%)Origin not reported1.8 kt (<1%)Netherlands329 kt (19%)Poland217 kt (12%)France212 kt (12%)Belgium200 kt (11%)Italy189 kt (11%)Sweden147 kt (8%)Spain109 kt (6%)Germany93 kt (5%)Other EU (18)280 kt (16%)
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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 | 215,277 | 65.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Belgium | 131,300 | 65.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Italy | 120,572 | 63.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Other EU (18) | 118,485 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Poland | 103,678 | 47.9% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Germany | 86,831 | 93.2% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Russia | Poland | 84,853 | 39.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Sweden | 81,885 | 55.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (18) | 72,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Spain | 69,403 | 63.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Italy | 68,847 | 36.3% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | France | 66,000 | 31.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Sweden | 65,206 | 44.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | France | 51,000 | 24.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Other EU (18) | 50,280 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 50,120 | 15.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 46,000 | 21.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Netherlands | 42,559 | 12.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Spain | 34,914 | 31.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 29,500 | 14.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | France | 26,000 | 12.3% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Belgium | 25,200 | 12.6% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | France | 22,000 | 10.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (35) | Netherlands | 21,333 | 6.5% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Other EU (18) | 16,686 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Belgium | 13,500 | 6.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Poland | 12,414 | 5.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (18) | 12,154 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Poland | 11,035 | 5.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Other EU (18) | 10,817 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (35) | Spain | 5,068 | 4.6% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 4,204 | 4.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 3,771 | 1.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Germany | 1,093 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Germany | 1,062 | 1.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 1,000 | 0.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Origin not reported | Poland | 797 | 0.4% | 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
Source Period 2023-08 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:22 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyDownload CSV
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
- 2023-08 (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 2023-08, 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: 2023-08 (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.