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 2026, all 27 EU member states reported importing 1,846 kt of petrol; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (9%), and 83% came from other EU member states, with 3% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Germany297 kt (16%)Netherlands255 kt (14%)United Kingdom169 kt (9%)Belgium164 kt (9%)Finland152 kt (8%)Sweden102 kt (6%)Spain101 kt (5%)Denmark67 kt (4%)Other origins (30)491 kt (27%)Origin not reported48 kt (3%)Netherlands575 kt (31%)Germany151 kt (8%)Belgium138 kt (7%)Sweden101 kt (5%)Poland97 kt (5%)Other EU (21)785 kt (43%)
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Where the oil was produced
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Belgium
- Sweden
- 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 (30) | Other EU (21) | 334,883 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Other EU (21) | 130,581 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (30) | Netherlands | 115,732 | 20.1% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 102,605 | 17.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 97,226 | 64.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 89,964 | 15.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Finland | Netherlands | 86,374 | 15.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 80,812 | 14.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 75,600 | 54.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Poland | 75,164 | 77.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (21) | 73,126 | — | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Other EU (21) | 63,284 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Sweden | Other EU (21) | 62,828 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 56,400 | 40.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Finland | Sweden | 52,200 | 51.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Netherlands | 37,909 | 6.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 37,863 | 6.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (21) | 36,940 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Denmark | Sweden | 33,824 | 33.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Other EU (21) | 31,599 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | Other EU (21) | 28,836 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (30) | Germany | 27,341 | 18.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Belgium | Germany | 24,576 | 16.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Denmark | Netherlands | 23,909 | 4.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Poland | 18,879 | 19.6% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Finland | Other EU (21) | 13,346 | — | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Denmark | Other EU (21) | 9,437 | 19.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 9,094 | 9.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (30) | Sweden | 6,040 | 6.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins (30) | Belgium | 4,800 | 3.5% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins (30) | Poland | 2,463 | 2.6% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Belgium | 1,400 | 1.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Germany | 1,009 | 0.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Finland | Germany | 362 | 0.2% | 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
Source Period 2026-04 (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
- 2026-04 (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 2026-04, 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: 2026-04 (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.