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 July 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,452 kt of petrol, and 88% 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)
Total to EU member states (Jul 2024)
540.7 thousand tonnes
22% of reported EU petrol imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Germany216 kt (40%)
- France136 kt (25%)
- Belgium106 kt (20%)
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 (25) | Other EU (18) | 317,979 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (25) | Netherlands | 302,212 | 42.3% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 216,314 | 65.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 151,753 | 21.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 136,000 | 50.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 108,564 | 15.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 105,700 | 74.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (18) | 103,854 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Other EU (18) | 99,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Poland | 84,719 | 93.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 83,000 | 30.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Netherlands | 76,824 | 10.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 75,548 | 10.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (25) | Sweden | 73,058 | 89.6% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (25) | Italy | 61,175 | 57.8% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 58,231 | 17.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (25) | Spain | 57,526 | 60.9% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (25) | Germany | 53,494 | 16.3% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (18) | 48,161 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Italy | 44,635 | 42.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (18) | 34,466 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (25) | Belgium | 29,900 | 21.2% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Spain | 26,073 | 27.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 24,000 | 8.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Other EU (18) | 19,788 | 66.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (25) | France | 19,000 | 7.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | Spain | 10,904 | 11.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 8,489 | 10.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (25) | Poland | 5,750 | 6.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Germany | Belgium | 5,500 | 3.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | France | 4,000 | 1.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 4,000 | 1.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Sweden | France | 1,000 | 0.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Germany | 967 | 0.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
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
- 2024-07 (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 2024-07, 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: 2024-07 (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.