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 March 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,895 kt of LPG; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (37%), Norway (14%) and Algeria (13%), 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 States692 kt (37%)Norway270 kt (14%)Algeria240 kt (13%)Russia142 kt (7%)United Kingdom132 kt (7%)Other origins (32)415 kt (22%)Origin not reported4.0 kt (<1%)Netherlands352 kt (19%)France252 kt (13%)Italy216 kt (11%)Sweden212 kt (11%)Poland201 kt (11%)Belgium176 kt (9%)Germany126 kt (7%)Spain100 kt (5%)Other EU (18)259 kt (14%)
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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 | 246,726 | 70.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Sweden | 131,869 | 62.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Italy | 122,750 | 56.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Germany | 111,266 | 88.0% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | Other EU (18) | 108,782 | — | Summed by usSum of 17 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Russia | Poland | 99,728 | 49.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 93,000 | 36.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Belgium | 86,600 | 49.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Belgium | 69,100 | 39.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Poland | 67,545 | 33.6% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | France | 65,000 | 25.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Netherlands | 63,843 | 18.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Sweden | 57,706 | 27.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | France | 57,000 | 22.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Spain | 50,198 | 50.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Italy | 48,414 | 22.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Italy | 45,234 | 20.9% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Russia | Other EU (18) | 42,026 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Other EU (18) | 41,450 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Spain | 37,003 | 36.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Netherlands | 34,015 | 9.7% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (18) | 30,643 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Sweden | 22,070 | 10.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | France | 20,000 | 7.9% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Other EU (18) | 17,358 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (32) | Belgium | 16,900 | 9.6% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | France | 16,000 | 6.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Poland | 15,898 | 7.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Other EU (18) | 15,620 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Poland | 11,338 | 5.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (32) | Spain | 10,956 | 10.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Germany | 10,481 | 8.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 7,730 | 2.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Poland | 6,743 | 3.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 4,694 | 3.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 3,300 | 1.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (18) | 3,011 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Spain | 2,093 | 2.1% | 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 2024-03 (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
- 2024-03 (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 2024-03, 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: 2024-03 (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.