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 August 2023, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,004 kt of petrol, and 89% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Netherlands381 kt (19%)Germany297 kt (15%)Belgium282 kt (14%)Italy112 kt (6%)Sweden111 kt (6%)Other origins (26)816 kt (41%)Origin not reported5.0 kt (<1%)Netherlands457 kt (23%)Germany268 kt (13%)Belgium179 kt (9%)France164 kt (8%)Austria121 kt (6%)Slovenia92 kt (5%)Poland91 kt (5%)Sweden87 kt (4%)Other EU (18)545 kt (27%)
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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 (26) | Other EU (18) | 308,134 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 193,090 | 42.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 170,548 | 63.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (26) | Netherlands | 154,702 | 33.8% | Summed by usSum of 7 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (26) | Belgium | 100,800 | 56.2% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 96,000 | 58.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 94,279 | 20.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (26) | Sweden | 87,122 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Other EU (18) | 84,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Austria | 83,953 | 69.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Slovenia | 77,000 | 83.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 68,000 | 37.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 51,642 | 56.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (26) | Germany | 49,915 | 18.6% | Summed by usSum of 8 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (18) | 46,278 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (26) | Poland | 39,598 | 43.4% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Other EU (18) | 38,219 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (18) | 38,039 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (26) | Austria | 36,732 | 30.4% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 36,600 | 13.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Other EU (18) | 29,918 | 53.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (26) | France | 24,000 | 14.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Germany | France | 24,000 | 14.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 15,127 | 3.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (26) | Slovenia | 15,000 | 16.3% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 14,000 | 8.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Germany | 11,250 | 4.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 5,500 | 3.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Belgium | 5,000 | 2.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 5,000 | 3.0% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Sweden | France | 1,000 | 0.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
Source & method
Source Period 2023-08 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:22 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyDownload CSV
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
- 2023-08 (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 2023-08, 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: 2023-08 (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.