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 2,148 kt of petrol; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (9%), and 81% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
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Where the oil was produced
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
Total to EU member states (Mar 2024)
351.3 thousand tonnes
16% of reported EU petrol imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Netherlands166 kt (47%)
- Poland81 kt (23%)
- Other EU (18)49 kt (14%)
and 3 more in the table above
Source: Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other origins (24) | Netherlands | 290,636 | 33.6% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (24) | Other EU (18) | 267,107 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 234,933 | 27.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 166,211 | 19.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 126,618 | 14.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 124,000 | 56.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 93,160 | 56.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 87,000 | 46.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 80,763 | 94.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (24) | Finland | 69,000 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Other EU (18) | 53,229 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | France | 51,000 | 23.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 51,000 | 27.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (18) | 48,553 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Netherlands | 47,713 | 5.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 40,718 | 24.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (24) | Sweden | 38,582 | 78.7% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (24) | Belgium | 34,300 | 18.4% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Other EU (18) | 34,195 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (24) | Germany | 31,128 | 18.7% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Czechia | 31,000 | 56.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (18) | 25,651 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (24) | Czechia | 24,000 | 43.6% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (18) | 22,180 | 57.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (24) | France | 20,000 | 9.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Belgium | 13,800 | 7.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 12,000 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 11,000 | 5.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 10,427 | 21.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (24) | Poland | 4,448 | 5.2% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | France | 3,000 | 1.4% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 955 | 0.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, 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
- 2024-03 (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 petrol 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: Greece. 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.