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 November 2023, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,932 kt of LPG; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (41%), Algeria (11%) 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 States798 kt (41%)Algeria215 kt (11%)Norway186 kt (10%)Russia157 kt (8%)United Kingdom123 kt (6%)Netherlands95 kt (5%)Belgium74 kt (4%)Sweden65 kt (3%)Other origins (28)213 kt (11%)Origin not reported5.5 kt (<1%)Netherlands368 kt (19%)France264 kt (14%)Poland251 kt (13%)Belgium220 kt (11%)Italy212 kt (11%)Other EU (21)616 kt (32%)
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Where the oil was produced
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- France
- Poland
- Belgium
- 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 | 267,583 | 72.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (21) | 201,712 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Belgium | 139,300 | 63.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (28) | Other EU (21) | 121,240 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | France | 110,000 | 41.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Poland | 108,612 | 43.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Italy | 98,567 | 46.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 67,000 | 25.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Other EU (21) | 64,615 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (21) | 63,310 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Italy | 62,462 | 29.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Poland | 57,926 | 23.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (21) | 50,865 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (28) | Italy | 50,700 | 23.9% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Other EU (21) | 49,436 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Russia | Other EU (21) | 48,781 | — | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | France | 40,000 | 15.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Belgium | 37,100 | 16.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | France | 35,000 | 13.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Netherlands | 34,749 | 9.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 29,309 | 8.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (28) | Poland | 21,900 | 8.7% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 21,600 | 9.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 19,321 | 5.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Poland | 18,818 | 7.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 17,600 | 8.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 16,632 | 6.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Poland | 14,106 | 5.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (21) | 13,401 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (28) | Netherlands | 13,002 | 3.5% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Poland | 7,646 | 3.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 6,000 | 2.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 4,475 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Poland | 4,465 | 1.8% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other origins (28) | Belgium | 4,400 | 2.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 3,000 | 1.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Other EU (21) | 3,000 | 50.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (28) | France | 2,000 | 0.8% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Poland | 1,029 | 0.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 1,000 | 0.4% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
Source & method
Source Period 2023-11 (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
- 2023-11 (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 2023-11, 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: 2023-11 (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.