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 January 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,807 kt of LPG; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (34%), Algeria (16%) and Norway (11%), and 20% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
United States612 kt (34%)Algeria290 kt (16%)Norway198 kt (11%)Russia157 kt (9%)United Kingdom109 kt (6%)Netherlands87 kt (5%)France69 kt (4%)Belgium61 kt (3%)Other origins (32)222 kt (12%)Origin not reported1.0 kt (<1%)France318 kt (18%)Italy303 kt (17%)Belgium256 kt (14%)Poland221 kt (12%)Netherlands147 kt (8%)Other EU (21)562 kt (31%)
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Country it was last shipped from
- Colour = importing country:
- France
- Italy
- Belgium
- Poland
- Netherlands
- Other EU (21)
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
- Reported; colour = country last shipped from
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
The numbers as a table
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Belgium | 181,200 | 70.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Italy | 160,819 | 53.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 158,000 | 49.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Other EU (21) | 125,314 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Other EU (21) | 106,822 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Russia | Poland | 106,093 | 48.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 94,744 | 64.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | Other EU (21) | 91,945 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | France | 83,000 | 26.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Italy | 61,725 | 20.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Poland | 59,076 | 26.7% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (21) | 56,995 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| France | Italy | 51,219 | 16.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Russia | Other EU (21) | 51,157 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Belgium | 50,600 | 19.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | France | 48,000 | 15.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (21) | 46,694 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Other EU (21) | 46,082 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | Italy | 29,654 | 9.8% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Netherlands | 24,297 | 16.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (21) | 21,380 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 20,800 | 8.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Poland | 20,057 | 9.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | France | 19,000 | 6.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 17,888 | 12.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| France | Other EU (21) | 15,479 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Poland | 12,127 | 5.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 9,325 | 4.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 8,390 | 3.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Poland | 6,056 | 2.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Netherlands | 4,430 | 3.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | France | 4,000 | 1.3% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 4,000 | 1.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 3,934 | 2.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 2,000 | 0.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| France | Netherlands | 1,535 | 1.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| France | Belgium | 1,100 | 0.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 1,000 | 0.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 1,000 | 0.3% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
Source & method
Source Period 2024-01 (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
- 2024-01 (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 the fuel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined.
Left: the country the LPG was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2024-01, 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: 2024-01 (requested; 27 of 27 member states reported). Energy basis: the country the fuel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined, 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): for refined products, the country the fuel was last shipped from, as each EU member state reports it; it may be a trading hub rather than where the fuel was refined. The customs basis is not mixed in.
- Imports from other EU member states may be fuel refined there or fuel only shipped on from elsewhere; they are grouped separately.
- 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.