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 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.

The numbers as a table
Reported imports, largest first
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
BelgiumNetherlands412,02435.3%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NetherlandsGermany249,81357.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
United KingdomNetherlands222,27319.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
GermanyNetherlands138,93511.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
AlgeriaBelgium121,20050.3%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SpainNetherlands90,5907.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
AlgeriaFrance90,00032.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
ItalyFrance70,00025.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
FranceNetherlands66,6465.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
AlgeriaSpain62,383100.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
BelgiumGermany59,19213.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
AlgeriaNetherlands56,1084.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
BelgiumItaly54,06945.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Other EU member statesGermany53,40112.3%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
United StatesNetherlands51,6844.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SwedenNetherlands44,2943.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
TürkiyeNetherlands43,3723.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NetherlandsBelgium42,10017.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
ItalyNetherlands39,8573.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NetherlandsFrance35,00012.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SpainBelgium28,20011.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SpainItaly28,19723.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SpainFrance27,0009.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
BelgiumFrance26,0009.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NorwayBelgium25,90010.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Other origins outside the EUItaly25,01421.1%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
Other origins outside the EUGermany22,3515.1%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
NorwayGermany20,0284.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
United KingdomFrance14,0005.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NetherlandsSweden13,98050.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NorwaySweden13,48949.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
NorwayFrance13,0004.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Other EU member statesFinland13,00046.4%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
NetherlandsItaly11,2939.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
United KingdomGermany11,0552.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
United KingdomBelgium10,9004.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SwedenBelgium10,4004.3%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
United StatesFinland10,00035.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
FranceGermany8,7802.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
TürkiyeGermany7,9591.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
SpainPortugal5,805100.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
GermanyFinland5,00017.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Other EU member statesCzechia4,000100.0%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
Other EU member statesHungary4,00066.7%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
United StatesGermany2,2620.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
Other origins outside the EUHungary2,00033.3%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
GermanyBelgium1,9000.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)

One flow with a share under 0.1% is not listed here. It is still counted in every total and drawn in the diagram, and the CSV under Source & method lists every flow.

Source & method
Source
Eurostat (European Commission)Official
Period 2024-08 (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 2024-08, 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.