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 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 3,251 kt of naphtha; the largest origins outside the EU were Algeria (12%), and 69% came from other EU member states.
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Country it was last shipped from
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Belgium
- France
- Sweden
- Other EU (7)
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | Netherlands | 556,888 | 33.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (20) | Netherlands | 404,019 | 24.1% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Germany | Netherlands | 272,821 | 16.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Bulgaria | Germany | 223,945 | 30.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 207,263 | 28.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (20) | Other EU (7) | 147,420 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Algeria | Netherlands | 133,780 | 8.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Spain | Netherlands | 125,823 | 7.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Germany | 123,314 | 16.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Belgium | 119,100 | 31.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Spain | Belgium | 111,900 | 29.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 109,225 | 6.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (20) | Germany | 81,694 | 11.2% | Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Italy | France | 78,000 | 33.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Italy | Netherlands | 70,604 | 4.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (20) | Belgium | 69,900 | 18.7% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | Germany | 66,448 | 9.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 66,000 | 28.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (20) | France | 41,000 | 17.4% | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 39,567 | 74.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 37,500 | 10.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (7) | 30,837 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Bulgaria | Belgium | 30,100 | 8.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 25,945 | 3.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | France | 24,000 | 10.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 17,000 | 7.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Other origins (20) | Sweden | 13,667 | 25.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | France | 9,000 | 3.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (7) | 7,000 | 30.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Germany | Belgium | 5,400 | 1.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Other EU (7) | 1,253 | 71.8% | 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) |
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
- 2024-04 (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 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 2024-04, 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: 2024-04 (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, 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.