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 April 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,366 kt of petrol; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (6%), and 85% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Month
United Kingdom151 kt (6%)United States83 kt (4%)Algeria57 kt (2%)Other origins outside the EU56 kt (2%)Belgium485 kt (21%)Netherlands446 kt (19%)Germany325 kt (14%)Spain129 kt (5%)Sweden107 kt (5%)Greece97 kt (4%)Italy62 kt (3%)Austria53 kt (2%)Slovakia52 kt (2%)Other EU member states260 kt (11%)Origin not reported4.0 kt (<1%)Netherlands707 kt (30%)France328 kt (14%)Germany284 kt (12%)Belgium160 kt (7%)Poland102 kt (4%)Ireland91 kt (4%)Slovenia68 kt (3%)Italy64 kt (3%)Czechia62 kt (3%)Denmark61 kt (3%)Austria60 kt (3%)Finland53 kt (2%)Sweden52 kt (2%)Hungary48 kt (2%)Luxembourg37 kt (2%)Croatia33 kt (1%)Portugal25 kt (1%)Cyprus24 kt (1%)Spain23 kt (<1%)Estonia20 kt (<1%)Bulgaria18 kt (<1%)Slovakia18 kt (<1%)Latvia15 kt (<1%)Romania9.0 kt (<1%)Lithuania4.4 kt (<1%)Maltaless than 0.1 kt (<1%)
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Where the oil was produced
- United Kingdom151 kt (6%)
- United States83 kt (4%)
- Algeria57 kt (2%)
- Other origins outside the EU56 kt (2%)
- Belgium485 kt (21%)
- Netherlands446 kt (19%)
- Germany325 kt (14%)
- Spain129 kt (5%)
- Sweden107 kt (5%)
- Greece97 kt (4%)
- Italy62 kt (3%)
- Austria53 kt (2%)
- Slovakia52 kt (2%)
- Other EU member states260 kt (11%)
- Origin not reported4.0 kt (<1%)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | Netherlands | 235,351 | 33.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 185,414 | 65.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 163,000 | 49.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 115,300 | 16.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 97,600 | 60.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 92,498 | 91.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Ireland | 84,571 | 93.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 83,000 | 25.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Netherlands | 56,538 | 8.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 56,051 | 7.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 53,666 | 18.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Netherlands | 53,176 | 7.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Sweden | 49,116 | 95.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 48,480 | 6.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 46,161 | 6.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Austria | 45,839 | 76.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Finland | 44,000 | 83.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Czechia | 34,000 | 54.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Netherlands | 33,754 | 4.8% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Denmark | 33,000 | 54.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Netherlands | 32,459 | 4.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Italy | Slovenia | 32,000 | 47.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Greece | Italy | 31,941 | 49.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Germany | 31,211 | 11.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Spain | Italy | 30,090 | 47.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Netherlands | 29,839 | 4.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Belgium | 29,500 | 18.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Greece | Croatia | 26,481 | 80.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | France | 26,000 | 7.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Luxembourg | 24,942 | 68.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 24,000 | 7.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 22,567 | 97.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Greece | Cyprus | 21,851 | 89.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 21,000 | 6.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Estonia | 20,000 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Spain | Portugal | 19,592 | 78.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Bulgaria | 18,088 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Greece | Slovenia | 17,000 | 25.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Hungary | 17,000 | 35.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Hungary | 16,000 | 33.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Latvia | 15,315 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Austria | Hungary | 15,000 | 31.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Czechia | 14,000 | 22.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 13,200 | 8.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Slovakia | 12,004 | 68.5% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Austria | Czechia | 12,000 | 19.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Denmark | 12,000 | 19.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Belgium | 10,600 | 6.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Germany | Luxembourg | 10,262 | 28.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Austria | Germany | 10,257 | 3.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Austria | 9,222 | 15.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Finland | 9,000 | 17.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Austria | Slovenia | 8,000 | 11.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Denmark | 8,000 | 13.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Romania | 8,000 | 88.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Slovakia | Slovenia | 8,000 | 11.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Denmark | 7,000 | 11.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | France | 7,000 | 2.1% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United States | Belgium | 6,300 | 3.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Ireland | 6,005 | 6.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Poland | 5,748 | 5.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Austria | Slovakia | 5,518 | 31.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Portugal | 5,243 | 21.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Austria | 4,735 | 7.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Lithuania | 4,400 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Croatia | 4,265 | 13.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Poland | 3,378 | 3.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Germany | Belgium | 3,100 | 1.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Slovenia | 3,000 | 4.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Origin not reported | France | 3,000 | 0.9% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other origins outside the EU | Cyprus | 2,583 | 10.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 2,449 | 4.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Austria | Croatia | 2,020 | 6.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Czechia | 2,000 | 3.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins outside the EU | Italy | 1,985 | 3.1% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Slovakia | Germany | 1,424 | 0.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Luxembourg | 1,301 | 3.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Germany | 1,206 | 0.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Sweden | Germany | 1,038 | 0.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | France | 1,000 | 0.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Romania | 1,000 | 11.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Denmark | 1,000 | 1.6% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other EU member states | Spain | 691 | 3.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Portugal | 137 | 0.5% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Greece | Malta | 6 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
3 flows with a share under 0.1% are not listed here. They are still counted in every total and drawn in the diagram, and the CSV under Source & method lists every flow.
Source & method
Source Period 2024-04 (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
- 2024-04 (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 2024-04, 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: 2024-04 (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.