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 July 2025, Bulgaria's road diesel supply was 298 kt: 88% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Türkiye (7%); tracing one step back, no single crude origin reaches 5% of it, and 95% cannot be traced.
Country
Kazakhstan6.5 kt (est. 2%)Iraq3.0 kt (est. <1%)Libya1.9 kt (est. <1%)Norway1.0 kt (est. <1%)Azerbaijan1.0 kt (est. <1%)Saudi Arabia0.8 kt (est. <1%)Egypt0.5 kt (est. <1%)Other crude origins0.4 kt (est. <1%)Bulgaria: crude origin not reported254 kt (85%)Türkiye: no crude data20 kt (7%)Bulgaria: crude not from imports7.6 kt (3%)Smaller flows: crude not from imports2.0 kt (<1%)Bulgaria (own refineries)261 kt (88%)Türkiye20 kt (7%)Greece8.9 kt (3%)Romania8.2 kt (3%)Bulgaria: road diesel supply298 kt (100%)
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Bulgaria (own refineries)
- Türkiye
- Greece
- Romania
- Kazakhstan6.5 kt (est. 2%)
- Iraq3.0 kt (est. <1%)
- Libya1.9 kt (est. <1%)
- Norway1.0 kt (est. <1%)
- Azerbaijan1.0 kt (est. <1%)
- Saudi Arabia0.8 kt (est. <1%)
- Egypt0.5 kt (est. <1%)
- Other crude origins0.4 kt (est. <1%)
- Bulgaria: crude origin not reported254 kt (85%)
- Türkiye: no crude data20 kt (7%)
- Bulgaria: crude not from imports7.6 kt (3%)
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports2.0 kt (<1%)
Where the fuel was refined
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria (own refineries) | Bulgaria: road diesel supply | 261,341 | 87.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Türkiye | Bulgaria: road diesel supply | 19,947 | 6.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Greece | Bulgaria: road diesel supply | 8,869 | 3.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Romania | Bulgaria: road diesel supply | 8,187 | 2.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria: crude origin not reported | Bulgaria (own refineries) | 253,708 | 97.1% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Türkiye: no crude data | Türkiye | 19,947 | 100.0% | UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on. |
| Bulgaria: crude not from imports | Bulgaria (own refineries) | 7,633 | 2.9% | 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 | Romania | 4,022 | 49.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Iraq | Greece | 2,975 | 33.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Kazakhstan | Greece | 2,494 | 28.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Romania | 1,984 | 24.2% | 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. |
| Libya | Greece | 1,467 | 16.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Azerbaijan | Romania | 962 | 11.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Greece | 804 | 9.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Saudi Arabia | Greece | 675 | 7.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Libya | Romania | 459 | 5.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Egypt | Greece | 453 | 5.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Romania | 410 | 5.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Romania | 235 | 2.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Saudi Arabia | Romania | 115 | 1.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's road diesel to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium. |
Source & method
Source Period 2025-07 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:30 UTCConfidenceMediumMethodologyDownload CSV
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
- 2025-07 (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 countries whose refineries made it. Right: Bulgaria’s supply of road diesel in 2025-07, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2025-07 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2025-05 to 2025-07.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Bulgaria: crude origin not reported (253,708 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Türkiye: no crude data (19,947 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
- Bulgaria: crude not from imports (7,633 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: crude not from imports (1,984 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.
- 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; fuel re-exported through a supplier is not followed further.
- Widths are tonnes of this fuel, not tonnes of crude oil: a refinery makes several products from each tonne of crude.