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 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,147 kt of petrol; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (7%), and 86% came from other EU member states, with 1% not attributed to any country.
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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 (22) | Other EU (18) | 324,361 | — | Summed by usSum of 16 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 224,907 | 35.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 193,771 | 63.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Netherlands | 164,827 | 25.9% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 121,330 | 19.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (18) | 109,093 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 101,000 | 51.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 85,022 | 83.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Sweden | 83,558 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 80,236 | 26.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Italy | 79,721 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Netherlands | 75,839 | 11.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 72,000 | 86.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Spain | 59,338 | 76.7% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (18) | 50,070 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Netherlands | 49,449 | 7.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (18) | 35,582 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (22) | France | 34,000 | 17.3% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (22) | Germany | 31,441 | 10.3% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (18) | 28,684 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Other EU (18) | 24,253 | 63.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | France | 22,000 | 11.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 20,000 | 10.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 18,005 | 23.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Poland | 17,264 | 16.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 17,000 | 8.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (18) | 8,241 | 27.6% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other origins (22) | Belgium | 5,200 | 6.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Spain | Belgium | 5,100 | 6.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 3,000 | 1.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Germany | Belgium | 1,200 | 1.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 1,019 | 0.3% | 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
- 2024-08 (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 2024-08, 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: 2024-08 (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.