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 2026, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,096 kt of petrol; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (8%), and 83% came from other EU member states, with 3% 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 (May 2026)
314.6 thousand tonnes
15% of reported EU petrol imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Germany125 kt (40%)
- France73 kt (23%)
- Belgium69 kt (22%)
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 (33) | Other EU (18) | 357,619 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (33) | Netherlands | 244,594 | 37.7% | Summed by usSum of 9 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 132,963 | 20.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 125,343 | 64.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 115,004 | 17.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 95,680 | 14.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 85,623 | 67.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 73,000 | 45.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 68,900 | 45.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Belgium | 66,900 | 43.8% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (33) | Sweden | 63,608 | 88.5% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Other EU (18) | 61,407 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Netherlands | 60,089 | 9.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Slovenia | 60,000 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Czechia | 55,000 | 66.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (18) | 46,512 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (33) | France | 45,000 | 28.3% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (18) | 44,655 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (33) | Germany | 37,479 | 19.2% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (18) | 37,129 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 32,452 | 16.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (18) | 32,329 | 75.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (33) | Czechia | 26,000 | 31.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins (33) | Poland | 23,231 | 18.3% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (18) | 19,402 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | Poland | 18,078 | 14.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Spain | France | 18,000 | 11.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 15,000 | 9.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 15,000 | 9.4% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 8,247 | 11.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 6,000 | 3.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 2,000 | 1.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Czechia | 2,000 | 2.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 1,800 | 1.2% | 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
- 2026-05 (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 where the oil was produced.
Left: where the petrol was produced. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2026-05, 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: 2026-05 (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.