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 January 2025, all 27 EU member states reported importing 3,240 kt of naphtha; the largest origins outside the EU were the United Kingdom (13%) and Algeria (8%), and 69% came from other EU member states.
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Where the oil was produced
- Colour = importing country:
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Belgium
- France
- Spain
- Other EU (4)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | Netherlands | 413,619 | 23.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 411,499 | 23.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Netherlands | 364,740 | 21.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (15) | Netherlands | 280,959 | 16.2% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Germany | 279,070 | 50.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (15) | Germany | 150,797 | 27.4% | Summed by usSum of 3 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Spain | Netherlands | 142,478 | 8.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (15) | Belgium | 125,600 | 32.9% | Summed by usSum of 4 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Netherlands | Belgium | 116,300 | 30.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Spain | 110,019 | 75.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | France | 86,000 | 39.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Belgium | Germany | 84,393 | 15.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (15) | Other EU (4) | 76,531 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Portugal | Netherlands | 70,503 | 4.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Portugal | Belgium | 58,700 | 15.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Other EU (4) | 56,488 | 54.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins (15) | France | 56,000 | 25.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Algeria | Netherlands | 51,482 | 3.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Belgium | 45,900 | 12.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Spain | Other EU (4) | 37,600 | 35.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 37,000 | 16.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Spain | 36,593 | 25.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Belgium | 35,200 | 9.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Other EU (4) | 30,602 | — | Summed by usSum of 2 reported flows, added up on this page. |
| Belgium | France | 26,000 | 11.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Italy | Germany | 22,438 | 4.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | France | 13,000 | 5.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Germany | 8,147 | 1.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Germany | Other EU (4) | 6,000 | 31.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 5,497 | 1.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | France | 1,000 | 0.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, 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
- 2025-01 (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 2025-01, 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: 2025-01 (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, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Italy, 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): 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.