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 October 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 2,811 kt of naphtha; the largest origins outside the EU were Algeria (14%), the United Kingdom (11%) and the United States (6%), and 57% came from other EU member states.

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  • Reported (solid)
  • Summed by us (dotted)
  • Origin not reported (hatched)
The numbers as a table
Reported imports, largest first
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
BelgiumNetherlands387,71928.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Other origins (19)Netherlands372,02126.8%Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page.
United KingdomNetherlands300,51221.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Other origins (19)Germany230,35348.0%Summed by usSum of 5 reported flows, added up on this page.
NetherlandsGermany210,61443.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
GermanyNetherlands205,66814.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Other origins (19)Belgium139,70054.7%Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page.
AlgeriaSpain134,182100.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
AlgeriaNetherlands119,6538.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Other origins (19)France89,00032.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
NetherlandsBelgium75,50029.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
AlgeriaFrance67,00024.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
NetherlandsFrance60,00022.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
NetherlandsSweden58,37969.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Other origins (19)Other EU (3)57,000—Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page.
Other origins (19)Greece44,02355.2%Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins.
BelgiumGermany39,2078.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
BelgiumFrance36,00013.3%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
AlgeriaGreece35,78644.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
AlgeriaBelgium34,70013.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Other origins (19)Italy32,52352.4%Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page.
BelgiumItaly29,57447.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Other origins (19)Sweden26,27831.0%Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page.
United KingdomFrance18,0006.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
GermanyBelgium5,6002.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
GermanyOther EU (3)1,00010.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
GermanyFrance1,0000.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Source & method
Source
Eurostat (European Commission)Official
Period 2024-10 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:22 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyDownload CSV

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 2024-10, 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: 2024-10 (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, Portugal, 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.