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 January 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,030 kt of petrol; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (9%), and 84% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Belgium341 kt (17%)Netherlands336 kt (17%)Germany286 kt (14%)United Kingdom185 kt (9%)Greece89 kt (4%)Slovakia76 kt (4%)Finland75 kt (4%)Denmark67 kt (3%)Other origins (22)573 kt (28%)Origin not reported3.0 kt (<1%)Netherlands679 kt (33%)France227 kt (11%)Germany205 kt (10%)Belgium142 kt (7%)Poland99 kt (5%)Other EU (21)678 kt (33%)
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Where the oil was produced
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- France
- Germany
- Belgium
- Poland
- Other EU (21)
- 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 (22) | Other EU (21) | 293,665 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 210,682 | 31.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Netherlands | 164,602 | 24.2% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 116,000 | 51.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 111,460 | 16.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 109,863 | 16.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 99,922 | 48.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Greece | Other EU (21) | 89,009 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (21) | 78,299 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 77,200 | 54.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 67,973 | 68.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 62,000 | 27.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Other EU (21) | 43,994 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Denmark | Netherlands | 43,149 | 6.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (21) | 42,653 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (22) | Germany | 41,498 | 20.2% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Finland | Netherlands | 39,096 | 5.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (21) | 38,742 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 36,426 | 17.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Finland | Other EU (21) | 35,173 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 34,100 | 24.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | France | 33,000 | 14.5% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Other EU (21) | 31,760 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Slovakia | Germany | 26,741 | 13.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Poland | 26,301 | 26.5% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Denmark | Other EU (21) | 23,747 | 49.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 16,000 | 11.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Belgium | 14,200 | 10.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | France | 14,000 | 6.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Poland | 4,799 | 4.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 2,000 | 0.9% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (21) | 1,000 | 2.4% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 378 | 0.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Finland | Germany | 369 | 0.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
Source & method
Source Period 2024-01 (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
- 2024-01 (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 2024-01, 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: 2024-01 (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.