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 2,369 kt of naphtha; the largest origins outside the EU were Algeria (14%) and the United Kingdom (11%), and 65% came from other EU member states.
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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 2024)
179.8 thousand tonnes
8% of reported EU naphtha imports
Official
Top destination countries
- Netherlands91 kt (50%)
- Belgium28 kt (16%)
- Italy28 kt (16%)
and 2 more in the table above
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 | 412,024 | 35.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Netherlands | 384,788 | 33.0% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 249,813 | 57.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 222,273 | 19.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Belgium | 121,200 | 50.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Germany | 114,781 | 26.4% | Summed by usSum of 6 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Netherlands | 90,590 | 7.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 90,000 | 32.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | France | 83,000 | 30.2% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Spain | 62,383 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 59,192 | 13.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Netherlands | 56,108 | 4.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Italy | 54,069 | 45.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 42,100 | 17.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Belgium | 38,400 | 15.9% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | France | 35,000 | 12.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Belgium | 28,200 | 11.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Italy | 28,197 | 23.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Finland | 28,000 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | France | 27,000 | 9.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 26,000 | 9.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Italy | 25,014 | 21.1% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United Kingdom | France | 14,000 | 5.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 13,980 | 50.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Sweden | 13,489 | 49.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Italy | 11,293 | 9.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 11,055 | 2.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 10,900 | 4.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (19) | Other EU (3) | 10,000 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Other EU (3) | 5,805 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, 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
- 2024-08 (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 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: 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): 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.