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.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Month
United Kingdom151 kt (7%)Other origins outside the EU141 kt (7%)Netherlands435 kt (20%)Belgium358 kt (17%)Germany291 kt (14%)Spain101 kt (5%)Sweden95 kt (4%)Italy94 kt (4%)Greece80 kt (4%)Austria54 kt (3%)Finland50 kt (2%)Romania48 kt (2%)Slovakia45 kt (2%)Other EU member states192 kt (9%)Origin not reported11 kt (<1%)Netherlands636 kt (30%)Germany306 kt (14%)France197 kt (9%)Poland102 kt (5%)Sweden84 kt (4%)Belgium84 kt (4%)Italy80 kt (4%)Spain77 kt (4%)Austria75 kt (4%)Slovenia58 kt (3%)Ireland57 kt (3%)Czechia56 kt (3%)Finland51 kt (2%)Hungary42 kt (2%)Portugal38 kt (2%)Luxembourg36 kt (2%)Denmark31 kt (1%)Cyprus30 kt (1%)Estonia24 kt (1%)Bulgaria23 kt (1%)Latvia18 kt (<1%)Slovakia16 kt (<1%)Romania12 kt (<1%)Croatia11 kt (<1%)Lithuania2.9 kt (<1%)Maltaless than 0.1 kt (<1%)
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Where the oil was produced
- United Kingdom151 kt (7%)
- Other origins outside the EU141 kt (7%)
- Netherlands435 kt (20%)
- Belgium358 kt (17%)
- Germany291 kt (14%)
- Spain101 kt (5%)
- Sweden95 kt (4%)
- Italy94 kt (4%)
- Greece80 kt (4%)
- Austria54 kt (3%)
- Finland50 kt (2%)
- Romania48 kt (2%)
- Slovakia45 kt (2%)
- Other EU member states192 kt (9%)
- Origin not reported11 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 | 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) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 121,330 | 19.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| 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 outside the EU | Netherlands | 82,513 | 13.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Belgium | Germany | 80,236 | 26.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| 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) |
| Germany | Austria | 66,513 | 88.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Greece | Italy | 59,000 | 74.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Finland | 51,000 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Netherlands | 49,449 | 7.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Sweden | 42,127 | 50.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Finland | Sweden | 41,431 | 49.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Spain | 40,818 | 52.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Netherlands | 36,380 | 5.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Germany | Czechia | 36,000 | 64.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Ireland | 35,429 | 62.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | France | 33,000 | 16.8% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Italy | Slovenia | 31,000 | 53.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Luxembourg | 29,582 | 81.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Portugal | 24,253 | 63.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 24,178 | 3.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Estonia | 24,000 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Austria | Hungary | 23,000 | 54.8% | 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) |
| Italy | Netherlands | 21,756 | 3.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Ireland | 21,683 | 38.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Germany | 20,678 | 6.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Greece | Cyprus | 20,335 | 68.1% | 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) |
| Sweden | Denmark | 18,000 | 58.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Romania | Bulgaria | 17,874 | 77.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 17,000 | 8.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Romania | Italy | 15,472 | 19.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Slovenia | 15,000 | 25.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Portugal | 13,641 | 35.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Latvia | 12,243 | 69.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Austria | Slovenia | 12,000 | 20.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Czechia | 12,000 | 21.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Hungary | 11,000 | 26.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Poland | 10,275 | 10.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Croatia | 10,085 | 94.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Slovakia | 10,059 | 63.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins outside the EU | Spain | 8,979 | 11.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Romania | Spain | 8,967 | 11.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Cyprus | 8,241 | 27.6% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Austria | Czechia | 7,000 | 12.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Denmark | 7,000 | 22.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Romania | 7,000 | 58.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Poland | 6,989 | 6.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Austria | Germany | 6,662 | 2.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Luxembourg | 6,578 | 18.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Denmark | 6,000 | 19.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Austria | Slovakia | 5,795 | 36.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Austria | 5,642 | 7.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Finland | Latvia | 5,315 | 30.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Italy | 5,249 | 6.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins outside the EU | 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) |
| Other EU member states | Romania | 5,000 | 41.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Romania | Hungary | 5,000 | 11.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Bulgaria | 4,431 | 19.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Hungary | 3,000 | 7.1% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Origin not reported | France | 3,000 | 1.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Finland | Lithuania | 2,900 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Germany | 2,773 | 0.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Austria | 2,077 | 2.8% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins outside the EU | Cyprus | 1,294 | 4.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| 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) |
| Netherlands | Czechia | 1,000 | 1.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | France | 1,000 | 0.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Romania | Austria | 978 | 1.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Greece | Bulgaria | 713 | 3.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Germany | 711 | 0.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Spain | 574 | 0.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins outside the EU | Croatia | 564 | 5.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Finland | Germany | 456 | 0.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Portugal | 50 | 0.1% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Italy | Malta | 6 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
4 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 2024-08 (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
- 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.