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 2025, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,269 kt of petrol, and 87% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
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Country it was last shipped from
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Spain
- Poland
- Belgium
- Other EU (21)
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
- Reported; colour = country last shipped from
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
The numbers as a table
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other origins (26) | Other EU (21) | 373,053 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 205,563 | 73.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (21) | 131,990 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (26) | Spain | 128,418 | 56.5% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 116,855 | 20.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 111,269 | 19.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 108,169 | 69.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Spain | Other EU (21) | 93,821 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Spain | 86,074 | 37.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 84,500 | 64.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Spain | Netherlands | 78,124 | 13.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 67,145 | 11.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Other EU (21) | 66,004 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (26) | Netherlands | 61,553 | 10.8% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Other EU (21) | 59,469 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (26) | Germany | 55,780 | 19.9% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Other EU (21) | 55,223 | — | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Finland | Netherlands | 48,039 | 8.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (26) | Poland | 45,976 | 29.7% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Finland | Other EU (21) | 45,608 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | Netherlands | 45,282 | 8.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 40,692 | 7.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (21) | 38,615 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Other EU (21) | 33,901 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (26) | Belgium | 23,600 | 17.9% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Belgium | 21,000 | 16.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 18,074 | 6.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Spain | 8,043 | 3.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (21) | 8,000 | 8.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United Kingdom | Spain | 4,846 | 2.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 1,700 | 1.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 800 | 0.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Germany | 778 | 0.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Poland | 606 | 0.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Finland | Germany | 522 | 0.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, 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
- 2025-08 (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 the fuel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined.
Left: the country the petrol was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2025-08, 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: 2025-08 (requested; 27 of 27 member states reported). Energy basis: the country the fuel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined, 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): for refined products, the country the fuel was last shipped from, as each EU member state reports it; it may be a trading hub rather than where the fuel was refined. The customs basis is not mixed in.
- Imports from other EU member states may be fuel refined there or fuel only shipped on from elsewhere; they are grouped separately.
- 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.