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 April 2025, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,263 kt of petrol, and 90% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
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Country it was last shipped from
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
Total to EU member states (Apr 2025)
301.2 thousand tonnes
13% of reported EU petrol imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Netherlands102 kt (34%)
- Poland82 kt (27%)
- Other EU (18)58 kt (19%)
and 2 more in the table above
Source: Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other origins (28) | Other EU (18) | 388,155 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (28) | Netherlands | 245,134 | 38.8% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 199,859 | 69.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 153,284 | 24.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (28) | Spain | 115,938 | 47.9% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Spain | 103,950 | 43.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 101,860 | 16.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (28) | Sweden | 99,721 | 96.4% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Netherlands | 93,756 | 14.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 82,421 | 66.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (28) | Germany | 80,175 | 27.7% | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (18) | 57,889 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Other EU (18) | 55,493 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Other EU (18) | 51,290 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 48,900 | 47.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (28) | Poland | 41,622 | 33.6% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Czechia | 40,000 | 54.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Italy | Netherlands | 37,748 | 6.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (28) | Czechia | 32,000 | 43.8% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 30,000 | 28.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (18) | 28,515 | 75.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Spain | Belgium | 27,400 | 26.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (28) | Belgium | 27,300 | 26.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins (28) | France | 26,000 | 25.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 26,000 | 25.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 22,114 | 9.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 19,000 | 18.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (18) | 9,586 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 9,144 | 3.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 3,716 | 3.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 3,000 | 2.9% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Netherlands | Czechia | 1,000 | 1.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (18) | 1,000 | 2.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
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
- 2025-04 (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 petrol 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 2025-04, 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: 2025-04 (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: 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): 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.