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 2023, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,479 kt of naphtha; the largest origins outside the EU were Algeria (13%), and 72% came from other EU member states, with less than 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)
Total to EU member states (Aug 2023)
691.9 thousand tonnes
28% of reported EU naphtha imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Netherlands646 kt (93%)
- Germany26 kt (4%)
- France20 kt (3%)
Source: Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
- 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 | 646,068 | 42.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Netherlands | 395,932 | 25.9% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Netherlands | 315,453 | 20.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Belgium | 154,700 | 52.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 154,187 | 55.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | France | 99,000 | 59.6% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (19) | Belgium | 95,800 | 32.4% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| France | Netherlands | 93,735 | 6.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Netherlands | 78,570 | 5.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Germany | 59,402 | 21.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Italy | 59,082 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (19) | Greece | 47,659 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (19) | Germany | 39,148 | 14.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (19) | Other EU (4) | 38,268 | — | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 30,500 | 10.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 30,123 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 25,856 | 9.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 24,000 | 14.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Finland | 22,000 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | France | 21,000 | 12.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 20,000 | 12.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| France | Belgium | 14,400 | 4.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (4) | 12,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Origin not reported | France | 2,000 | 1.2% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
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
- 2023-08 (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 naphtha was produced. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2023-08, 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: 2023-08 (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: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia. 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.