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 2025, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,401 kt of petrol; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (10%), and 81% came from other EU member states, with 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)
- 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 (30) | Other EU (18) | 299,157 | — | Summed by usSum of 17 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (30) | Netherlands | 285,755 | 34.5% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (30) | Spain | 230,682 | 90.1% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 189,067 | 22.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 176,523 | 71.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 132,771 | 16.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Finland | Netherlands | 113,443 | 13.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 110,000 | 64.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 106,999 | 12.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (18) | 94,396 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Poland | 86,489 | 76.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 77,400 | 71.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (30) | Hungary | 70,500 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Ireland | 68,774 | 71.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (30) | Germany | 49,221 | 20.0% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Other EU (18) | 38,620 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Finland | Other EU (18) | 37,152 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (30) | France | 36,000 | 21.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins (30) | Belgium | 29,700 | 27.5% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (30) | Poland | 26,883 | 23.7% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Ireland | 26,851 | 28.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (18) | 24,807 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | France | 21,000 | 12.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 20,080 | 8.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 17,523 | 6.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (18) | 12,111 | 48.9% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United Kingdom | Spain | 7,724 | 3.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (18) | 7,016 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 2,000 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 1,000 | 0.6% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Germany | Belgium | 900 | 0.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
2 flows with a share under 0.1% are not listed here. They are 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
- 2025-12 (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 where the oil was produced.
Left: where the petrol was produced. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2025-12, 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: 2025-12 (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.