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 December 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,984 kt of LPG; the largest origins outside the EU were the United States (34%), Norway (19%) and Algeria (13%), and 22% came from other EU member states.
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Country it was last shipped from
- Colour = importing country:
- Italy
- Netherlands
- France
- Sweden
- Belgium
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | Sweden | 206,981 | 84.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 177,916 | 61.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | Other EU (21) | 170,545 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Italy | 154,193 | 51.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Belgium | 143,300 | 58.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 131,000 | 52.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United States | Other EU (21) | 123,558 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Other EU (21) | 109,716 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Russia | Other EU (21) | 83,488 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Italy | 67,721 | 22.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 63,000 | 25.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | Netherlands | 59,205 | 20.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | Belgium | 52,300 | 21.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| France | Italy | 46,927 | 15.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (21) | 42,999 | — | Summed by usSum of 8 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (21) | 40,843 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United States | Sweden | 39,386 | 16.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | Other EU (21) | 34,057 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Other EU (21) | 33,329 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (34) | Belgium | 31,100 | 12.7% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (34) | Italy | 28,394 | 9.6% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Norway | France | 20,000 | 8.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 17,300 | 7.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| France | Other EU (21) | 16,616 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (34) | Netherlands | 15,824 | 5.5% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| France | Netherlands | 14,838 | 5.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 13,318 | 4.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (34) | France | 13,000 | 5.2% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 13,000 | 5.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 10,000 | 4.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 8,844 | 3.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| France | Belgium | 900 | 0.4% | 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
- 2024-12 (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 2024-12, 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: 2024-12 (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.