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 March 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 3,220 kt of naphtha; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (9%), Algeria (6%) and Türkiye (6%), and 66% came from other EU member states.
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Country it was last shipped from
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
Total to EU member states (Mar 2024)
553.3 thousand tonnes
17% of reported EU naphtha imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Netherlands453 kt (82%)
- Germany90 kt (16%)
- France10 kt (2%)
and 1 more in the table above
Source: Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
- 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 (22) | Netherlands | 559,826 | 33.6% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 452,533 | 27.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 320,156 | 19.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 259,814 | 44.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 243,895 | 14.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Belgium | 233,600 | 58.0% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (22) | Germany | 206,598 | 35.0% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (22) | France | 190,000 | 74.2% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Belgium | 114,500 | 28.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Spain | Netherlands | 91,906 | 5.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 89,793 | 15.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Spain | 77,241 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 55,000 | 13.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Italy | 43,912 | 57.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins (22) | Other EU (3) | 40,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Other origins (22) | Finland | 38,000 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 33,597 | 5.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Italy | 31,904 | 42.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Spain | France | 31,000 | 12.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 27,399 | 42.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (22) | Sweden | 25,985 | 40.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 16,000 | 6.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Sweden | 10,742 | 16.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 10,000 | 3.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | France | 8,000 | 3.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Spain | Other EU (3) | 5,799 | 74.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (3) | 1,000 | 12.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 1,000 | 0.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (3) | 999 | 12.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
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
- 2024-03 (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 naphtha 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 2024-03, 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: 2024-03 (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: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, 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): 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.