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 2024, Austria's petrol supply was 199 kt: 74% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Germany (22%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Kazakhstan (35%), Libya (15%) and Norway (6%), and 14% cannot be traced.
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Kazakhstan70 kt (est. 35%)
- Libya31 kt (est. 15%)
- Norway13 kt (est. 6%)
- Iraq12 kt (est. 6%)
- United States11 kt (est. 6%)
- Brazil7.3 kt (est. 4%)
- Russia7.0 kt (est. 4%)
- Other crude origins21 kt (est. 11%)
- Austria: crude origin not reported17 kt (9%)
- Austria: crude not from imports6.7 kt (3%)
- Germany: crude origin not reported2.7 kt (1%)
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports1.4 kt (<1%)
- Smaller flows: no refineryless than 0.1 kt (<1%)
Last shipped from
- Reported (solid)
- Our arithmetic on reported figures (dotted)
- Estimated crude behind the fuel (dashed)
- Cannot be traced (hatched)
- Reported (solid)
- Our arithmetic on reported figures (dotted)
- Estimated crude behind the fuel (dashed)
- Cannot be traced (hatched)
The numbers as a table
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria (own refineries) | Austria: petrol supply | 146,910 | 73.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Germany | Austria: petrol supply | 44,588 | 22.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Slovakia | Austria: petrol supply | 7,582 | 3.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan | Austria (own refineries) | 64,886 | 44.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Libya | Austria (own refineries) | 25,769 | 17.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Austria: crude origin not reported | Austria (own refineries) | 17,367 | 11.8% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Iraq | Austria (own refineries) | 10,832 | 7.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Austria (own refineries) | 10,386 | 7.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Germany | 10,370 | 23.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Germany | 10,261 | 23.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Germany | 9,088 | 20.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Russia | Slovakia | 6,975 | 92.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Slovakia's petrol to Austria split by Slovakia's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Austria: crude not from imports | Austria (own refineries) | 6,695 | 4.6% | UnknownThe refineries used more crude than the country imported (its own production or stocks). That part is not traced rather than being filled with the import mix. |
| Brazil | Austria (own refineries) | 6,669 | 4.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Libya | Germany | 4,742 | 10.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Kazakhstan | Germany | 4,641 | 10.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Austria (own refineries) | 3,475 | 2.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Germany: crude origin not reported | Germany | 2,725 | 6.1% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Iraq | Germany | 1,113 | 2.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Germany | 967 | 2.2% | UnknownThe refineries used more crude than the country imported (its own production or stocks). That part is not traced rather than being filled with the import mix. |
| United States | Austria (own refineries) | 832 | 0.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Brazil | Germany | 679 | 1.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Slovakia | 423 | 5.6% | UnknownThe refineries used more crude than the country imported (its own production or stocks). That part is not traced rather than being filled with the import mix. |
| Other crude origins | Slovakia | 184 | 2.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Slovakia's petrol to Austria split by Slovakia's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Russia | Czechia | 50 | 43.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Czechia's petrol to Austria split by Czechia's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: no refinery | Slovenia | 45 | 100.0% | UnknownThe supplying country has no crude oil refinery (a cited confirmed zero), so the fuel was made elsewhere and passed through. We look back one step only. |
| Other crude origins | Czechia | 35 | 30.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Czechia's petrol to Austria split by Czechia's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Kazakhstan | Czechia | 25 | 21.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Czechia's petrol to Austria split by Czechia's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Czechia | 5 | 4.3% | UnknownThe refineries used more crude than the country imported (its own production or stocks). That part is not traced rather than being filled with the import mix. |
| Russia | Hungary | 5 | 68.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Austria split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Hungary | 1 | 18.9% | UnknownThe refineries used more crude than the country imported (its own production or stocks). That part is not traced rather than being filled with the import mix. |
| Kazakhstan | Hungary | 1 | 8.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Austria split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Hungary | 0 | 4.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Austria split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium. |
3 flows with a share under 0.1% are not listed here. They are still counted in every total and drawn in the diagram, and the CSV under Source & method lists every flow.
Source & method
EurostatInferred · medium
Provenance
Inferred · mediumMedium- Publisher
- Eurostat
- Dataset id
- Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country, monthly data (refined products)nrg_ti_oilmeurostat_nrg_ti_oilm_products
- Period
- 2024-01 (month)
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23 12:11 UTC
- Type
- Inferred · medium
- Transformation
- none applied - stored exactly as published
- Licence
- Commission Decision 2011/833/EU - reuse authorised provided the source is acknowledged
- Supplier -> country links are published figures (OFFICIAL; the unattributed remainder and any 'Other suppliers' sum are CALCULATED).
- Crude -> supplier links are an estimate (INFERRED) from each supplier's crude-import mix; the published crude imports behind each one are in links[].evidence.
- Untraceable volumes are explicit UNKNOWN nodes with their cause. They are never spread over the traced origins.
Left: the crude oil behind the fuel (an estimate). Middle: the country’s own refineries and the countries the fuel was last shipped from, which may be a trading hub rather than where it was refined; the estimate treats each as the refiner. Right: Austria’s supply of petrol in 2024-01, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Countries without a crude refinery can appear under "Last shipped from": the importing country's statistics record where the fuel arrived from. It was refined elsewhere and either sold on or passed through that country's terminals; the statistics do not say which, or where it was refined.
Month: 2024-01 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2023-11 to 2024-01.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Austria: crude origin not reported (17,367 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Austria: crude not from imports (6,695 t): The refineries used more crude than the country imported (its own production or stocks). That part is not traced rather than being filled with the import mix.
- Germany: crude origin not reported (2,725 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports (1,396 t): The refineries used more crude than the country imported (its own production or stocks). That part is not traced rather than being filled with the import mix.
- Smaller flows: no refinery (45 t): The supplying country has no crude oil refinery (a cited confirmed zero), so the fuel was made elsewhere and passed through. We look back one step only.
- Only the supplier -> country links are reported figures. The crude -> supplier links are an estimate: each supplier's fuel is split by that supplier's own crude-import mix over the latest three months.
- Exports are assumed to be drawn from every source in proportion to its share of supply.
- The chain looks back one country only. Imports are counted under the country the fuel was last shipped from; where that country has refineries, fuel that only passed through it is traced as if it had been refined there.
- Widths are tonnes of this fuel, not tonnes of crude oil: a refinery makes several products from each tonne of crude.