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 February 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,067 kt of petrol; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (8%), and 86% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Germany361 kt (17%)Netherlands349 kt (17%)Belgium333 kt (16%)United Kingdom156 kt (8%)Sweden140 kt (7%)Italy99 kt (5%)Denmark66 kt (3%)Slovakia56 kt (3%)Other origins (19)500 kt (24%)Origin not reported6.2 kt (<1%)Netherlands801 kt (39%)Belgium213 kt (10%)Germany172 kt (8%)France164 kt (8%)Poland91 kt (4%)Other EU (21)626 kt (30%)
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Where the oil was produced
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Germany
- France
- 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 (19) | Other EU (21) | 265,361 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 261,137 | 32.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 179,051 | 22.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 141,700 | 66.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Netherlands | 122,083 | 15.2% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 96,787 | 12.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 91,000 | 55.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 82,767 | 48.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (21) | 78,284 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 73,809 | 9.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 73,540 | 80.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Other EU (21) | 66,099 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Other EU (21) | 60,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Denmark | Netherlands | 40,068 | 5.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Germany | 39,964 | 23.2% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Slovakia | Other EU (21) | 38,272 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (21) | 33,778 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (21) | 32,443 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 31,564 | 18.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | France | 30,000 | 18.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Italy | Netherlands | 28,232 | 3.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Belgium | 26,400 | 12.4% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Denmark | Other EU (21) | 26,134 | 50.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 24,100 | 11.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (21) | 21,415 | 70.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 19,000 | 11.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 19,000 | 11.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Germany | 16,574 | 9.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Poland | 16,314 | 17.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Belgium | 11,300 | 5.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Belgium | 4,700 | 2.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Belgium | 4,500 | 2.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (21) | 4,182 | 8.1% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United Kingdom | France | 2,000 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 2,000 | 1.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Slovakia | Poland | 1,047 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | France | 1,000 | 0.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Germany | 777 | 0.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 327 | 0.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
Source & method
Source Period 2024-02 (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
- 2024-02 (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 2024-02, 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: 2024-02 (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.