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 October 2023, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,719 kt of LPG; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (36%), Norway (14%) and Algeria (12%), and 22% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
United States613 kt (36%)Norway247 kt (14%)Algeria204 kt (12%)Russia154 kt (9%)Netherlands89 kt (5%)United Kingdom78 kt (5%)Belgium62 kt (4%)France54 kt (3%)Other origins (30)214 kt (12%)Origin not reported3.4 kt (<1%)Netherlands313 kt (18%)France282 kt (16%)Belgium264 kt (15%)Poland234 kt (14%)Italy182 kt (11%)Other EU (21)444 kt (26%)
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Where the oil was produced
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- France
- Belgium
- Poland
- Italy
- Other EU (21)
- 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 | 179,017 | 57.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 137,000 | 48.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (21) | 134,403 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Belgium | 128,200 | 48.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Belgium | 104,700 | 39.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Poland | 102,628 | 43.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Italy | 89,873 | 49.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (30) | Other EU (21) | 85,334 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (30) | Poland | 76,379 | 32.6% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Netherlands | 71,990 | 23.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 63,000 | 22.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Other EU (21) | 51,112 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (21) | 45,724 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | France | 44,000 | 15.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Other EU (21) | 38,903 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Other EU (21) | 35,027 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| France | Italy | 31,713 | 17.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (21) | 29,156 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (30) | Italy | 28,744 | 15.8% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Italy | 27,820 | 15.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 24,600 | 9.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 23,203 | 7.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | France | 18,000 | 6.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Poland | 17,330 | 7.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (21) | 13,691 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Poland | 13,083 | 5.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (30) | Netherlands | 12,940 | 4.1% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Netherlands | 12,637 | 4.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Poland | 11,250 | 4.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Other EU (21) | 10,452 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 9,536 | 3.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (30) | France | 8,000 | 2.8% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Poland | 6,684 | 2.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 6,000 | 2.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 6,000 | 2.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Belgium | 4,200 | 1.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Netherlands | 4,162 | 1.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Poland | 3,547 | 1.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Poland | 3,521 | 1.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Italy | 3,350 | 1.8% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other origins (30) | Belgium | 2,300 | 0.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
Source & method
Source Period 2023-10 (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
- 2023-10 (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 2023-10, 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: 2023-10 (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.