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 May 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,911 kt of naphtha; the largest origins outside the EU were Algeria (10%) and the United Kingdom (8%), and 70% came from other EU member states, with less than 1% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Month
May 2024
Latest month all EU members reported
| 2026 | |
|---|---|
| 2025 | |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 |
Algeria279 kt (10%)United Kingdom244 kt (8%)Saudi Arabia74 kt (3%)Brazil66 kt (2%)United States64 kt (2%)Other origins outside the EU134 kt (5%)Belgium678 kt (23%)Netherlands283 kt (10%)Germany256 kt (9%)Spain218 kt (7%)Bulgaria135 kt (5%)Sweden130 kt (4%)Portugal75 kt (3%)Other EU member states272 kt (9%)Origin not reported2.0 kt (<1%)Netherlands1.58 Mt (54%)Germany527 kt (18%)France296 kt (10%)Belgium269 kt (9%)Italy115 kt (4%)Czechia29 kt (<1%)Hungary27 kt (<1%)Sweden25 kt (<1%)Spain25 kt (<1%)Slovakia12 kt (<1%)Greece4.5 kt (<1%)Portugal2.0 kt (<1%)
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Where the oil was produced
- Algeria279 kt (10%)
- United Kingdom244 kt (8%)
- Saudi Arabia74 kt (3%)
- Brazil66 kt (2%)
- United States64 kt (2%)
- Other origins outside the EU134 kt (5%)
- Belgium678 kt (23%)
- Netherlands283 kt (10%)
- Germany256 kt (9%)
- Spain218 kt (7%)
- Bulgaria135 kt (5%)
- Sweden130 kt (4%)
- Portugal75 kt (3%)
- Other EU member states272 kt (9%)
- Origin not reported2.0 kt (<1%)
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
- 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 | 555,137 | 35.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Netherlands | 244,129 | 15.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 214,164 | 13.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Germany | 203,422 | 38.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Germany | 184,352 | 35.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Sweden | Netherlands | 129,554 | 8.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Netherlands | 116,316 | 7.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Spain | Netherlands | 116,126 | 7.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Bulgaria | France | 90,000 | 30.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Belgium | 70,400 | 26.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 70,337 | 13.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | 69,816 | 4.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Portugal | Netherlands | 67,779 | 4.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Brazil | Netherlands | 66,455 | 4.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Belgium | 65,300 | 24.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | France | 51,000 | 17.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Italy | 44,498 | 38.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Belgium | 43,500 | 16.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | France | 41,000 | 13.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | France | 37,000 | 12.5% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Spain | France | 36,000 | 12.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Bulgaria | Belgium | 32,600 | 12.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Italy | 32,398 | 28.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Belgium | 30,500 | 11.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Czechia | 29,000 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Germany | 26,883 | 5.1% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Spain | 24,914 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Algeria | France | 24,000 | 8.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Italy | 22,719 | 19.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Germany | 22,717 | 4.3% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 16,100 | 6.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Italy | 15,586 | 13.5% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United Kingdom | France | 14,000 | 4.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Sweden | 13,706 | 55.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Bulgaria | Germany | 12,169 | 2.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Hungary | 12,000 | 44.4% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Netherlands | Sweden | 11,230 | 45.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Hungary | 10,000 | 37.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Slovakia | 5,932 | 50.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Portugal | Belgium | 5,900 | 2.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Slovakia | 5,778 | 49.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Hungary | 5,000 | 18.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 5,000 | 1.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Greece | 4,514 | 100.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Saudi Arabia | Germany | 3,871 | 0.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Portugal | 2,012 | 99.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 2,000 | 0.7% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| United States | Germany | 1,226 | 0.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Portugal | Germany | 1,116 | 0.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | France | 1,000 | 0.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Germany | 599 | 0.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Portugal | 21 | 1.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
Source & method
Source Period 2024-05 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:22 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyDownload CSV
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
- 2024-05 (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 2024-05, 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: 2024-05 (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, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Romania, 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.