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 May 2025, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,357 kt of petrol; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (6%), and 80% 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 (May 2025)
300.6 thousand tonnes
13% of reported EU petrol imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Netherlands94 kt (31%)
- Poland89 kt (30%)
- Other EU (18)55 kt (18%)
and 3 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 (29) | Netherlands | 271,871 | 41.8% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (29) | Other EU (18) | 270,517 | — | Summed by usSum of 15 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 235,366 | 63.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (29) | Spain | 223,170 | 94.0% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 110,906 | 17.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 98,522 | 15.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 94,329 | 14.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 88,976 | 68.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 87,000 | 43.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Other EU (18) | 82,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (29) | Germany | 81,466 | 21.9% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 74,351 | 11.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (29) | Belgium | 67,000 | 49.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 66,300 | 49.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (29) | Sweden | 58,082 | 82.1% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (18) | 55,306 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (29) | France | 53,000 | 26.2% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 51,681 | 13.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Czechia | 44,000 | 63.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (29) | Poland | 41,531 | 31.8% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 36,000 | 17.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (18) | 32,791 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Other EU (18) | 31,198 | 84.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (29) | Czechia | 25,000 | 36.2% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (18) | 19,578 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | France | 17,000 | 8.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 14,180 | 6.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Sweden | 12,649 | 17.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 8,000 | 4.0% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 2,245 | 0.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 1,000 | 0.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | France | 1,000 | 0.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Germany | 679 | 0.2% | 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
- 2025-05 (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 2025-05, 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: 2025-05 (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.