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 September 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,498 kt of LPG; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (36%), Algeria (14%) and the United Kingdom (8%), and 23% came from other EU member states.
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Country it was last shipped from
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Poland
- France
- Italy
- 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 | Netherlands | 189,268 | 56.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Belgium | 182,400 | 68.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Other EU (21) | 129,146 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Italy | 96,312 | 61.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (21) | 79,699 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | France | 71,000 | 43.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Russia | Poland | 69,102 | 36.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 56,000 | 34.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 55,429 | 16.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Poland | 46,283 | 24.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Other EU (21) | 45,460 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Russia | Other EU (21) | 41,720 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | Other EU (21) | 38,664 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | Poland | 34,541 | 18.3% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (21) | 33,079 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | Italy | 32,255 | 20.7% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 29,900 | 11.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | Netherlands | 29,345 | 8.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| France | Italy | 27,226 | 17.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | Belgium | 22,300 | 8.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 18,000 | 6.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Netherlands | 16,130 | 4.8% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (31) | France | 16,000 | 9.9% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| France | Netherlands | 15,219 | 4.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Netherlands | 14,395 | 4.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 13,881 | 4.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 11,643 | 6.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | France | 11,000 | 6.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (21) | 10,934 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| France | Other EU (21) | 10,109 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Poland | 10,089 | 5.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | Poland | 10,036 | 5.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 8,000 | 4.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 7,013 | 3.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (31) | Belgium | 5,800 | 2.2% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| France | Belgium | 4,900 | 1.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Belgium | 3,800 | 1.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Other EU (21) | 1,704 | 3.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
One flow with a share under 0.1% is not listed here. It is still counted in every total and drawn in the diagram, and the CSV under Source & method lists every flow.
Source & method
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
- 2024-09 (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 2024-09, 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: 2024-09 (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.