Fuel Origin

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.

The numbers as a table
Reported imports, largest first
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
BelgiumNetherlands452,53327.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
GermanyNetherlands320,15619.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NetherlandsGermany259,81444.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
United KingdomNetherlands243,89514.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SwedenNetherlands120,1377.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SpainBelgium114,50028.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Saudi ArabiaNetherlands99,2475.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
FinlandNetherlands96,3445.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
TürkiyeNetherlands92,3225.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SpainNetherlands91,9065.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
BelgiumGermany89,79315.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
ItalyNetherlands86,2925.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
AlgeriaGermany82,11513.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
ItalySpain77,241100.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Other origins outside the EUNetherlands65,4843.9%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
AlgeriaFrance65,00025.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NetherlandsBelgium55,00013.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NorwayBelgium54,50013.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NorwayGermany52,6598.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
AlgeriaBelgium50,00012.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Other EU member statesBelgium46,00011.4%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
Other EU member statesFrance44,00017.2%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
Other origins outside the EUItaly43,91257.9%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
TürkiyeBelgium35,8008.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
TürkiyeGermany35,2366.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Saudi ArabiaBelgium35,1008.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
United KingdomGermany33,5975.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
TürkiyeFrance32,00012.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NetherlandsItaly31,90442.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SpainFrance31,00012.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NetherlandsSweden27,39942.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
ItalyFrance26,00010.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NorwaySweden25,98540.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Other EU member statesFinland25,00065.8%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
Other origins outside the EUGermany24,0894.1%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
Other origins outside the EUFrance23,0009.0%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
Other EU member statesCzechia19,000100.0%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
Other EU member statesHungary17,00081.0%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
NetherlandsFrance16,0006.3%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
ItalyFinland13,00034.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
ItalyBelgium12,2003.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
GermanySweden10,74216.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
BelgiumFrance10,0003.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Other EU member statesGermany9,8121.7%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
United KingdomFrance8,0003.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SpainPortugal5,79974.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Other origins outside the EUHungary4,00019.0%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
ItalyGermany2,6870.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
BelgiumPortugal1,00012.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
GermanyFrance1,0000.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NetherlandsPortugal99912.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Source & method
Source
Eurostat (European Commission)Official
Period 2024-03 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:22 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyDownload CSV

Left: where the naphtha was produced. 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 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.