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 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.

The numbers as a table
Reported: where Austria's petrol came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Austria (own refineries)Austria: petrol supply146,91073.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output)
GermanyAustria: petrol supply44,58822.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
SlovakiaAustria: petrol supply7,5823.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Estimate: the crude oil behind each supplier's fuel
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
KazakhstanAustria (own refineries)64,88644.2%EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
LibyaAustria (own refineries)25,76917.5%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 reportedAustria (own refineries)17,36711.8%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
IraqAustria (own refineries)10,8327.4%EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsAustria (own refineries)10,3867.1%EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsGermany10,37023.3%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
United StatesGermany10,26123.0%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
NorwayGermany9,08820.4%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
RussiaSlovakia6,97592.0%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 importsAustria (own refineries)6,6954.6%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.
BrazilAustria (own refineries)6,6694.5%EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
LibyaGermany4,74210.6%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanGermany4,64110.4%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Austria split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
NorwayAustria (own refineries)3,4752.4%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 reportedGermany2,7256.1%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
IraqGermany1,1132.5%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 importsGermany9672.2%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 StatesAustria (own refineries)8320.6%EstimatedEstimate: Austria's petrol to Austria split by Austria's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
BrazilGermany6791.5%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 importsSlovakia4235.6%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 originsSlovakia1842.4%EstimatedEstimate: Slovakia's petrol to Austria split by Slovakia's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
RussiaCzechia5043.5%EstimatedEstimate: Czechia's petrol to Austria split by Czechia's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: no refinerySlovenia45100.0%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 originsCzechia3530.4%EstimatedEstimate: Czechia's petrol to Austria split by Czechia's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanCzechia2521.8%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 importsCzechia54.3%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.
RussiaHungary568.0%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 importsHungary118.9%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.
KazakhstanHungary18.3%EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Austria split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsHungary04.7%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
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2024-01 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:30 UTCConfidenceMediumMethodologyDownload CSV

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.

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