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 2026, Bulgaria's petrol supply was 135 kt: 88% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Romania (11%); tracing one step back, no single crude origin reaches 5% of it, and 91% cannot be traced.
Country
Kazakhstan6.6 kt (est. 5%)Azerbaijan2.2 kt (est. 2%)Norway0.6 kt (est. <1%)Côte d’Ivoire0.6 kt (est. <1%)Guyana0.6 kt (est. <1%)Türkiye0.5 kt (est. <1%)Iraq0.4 kt (est. <1%)Other crude origins0.3 kt (est. <1%)Bulgaria: crude origin not reported116 kt (86%)Romania: crude not from imports4.0 kt (3%)Bulgaria: crude not from imports2.8 kt (2%)Smaller flows: crude not from imports0.1 kt (<1%)Bulgaria (own refineries)119 kt (88%)Romania15 kt (11%)Greece1.0 kt (<1%)Bulgaria: petrol supply135 kt (100%)
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Bulgaria (own refineries)
- Romania
- Greece
- Kazakhstan6.6 kt (est. 5%)
- Azerbaijan2.2 kt (est. 2%)
- Norway0.6 kt (est. <1%)
- Côte d’Ivoire0.6 kt (est. <1%)
- Guyana0.6 kt (est. <1%)
- Türkiye0.5 kt (est. <1%)
- Iraq0.4 kt (est. <1%)
- Other crude origins0.3 kt (est. <1%)
- Bulgaria: crude origin not reported116 kt (86%)
- Romania: crude not from imports4.0 kt (3%)
- Bulgaria: crude not from imports2.8 kt (2%)
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports0.1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria (own refineries) | Bulgaria: petrol supply | 118,951 | 88.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Romania | Bulgaria: petrol supply | 14,988 | 11.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Greece | Bulgaria: petrol supply | 1,013 | 0.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria: crude origin not reported | Bulgaria (own refineries) | 116,106 | 97.6% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Kazakhstan | Romania | 6,388 | 42.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Romania: crude not from imports | Romania | 4,008 | 26.7% | 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. |
| Bulgaria: crude not from imports | Bulgaria (own refineries) | 2,845 | 2.4% | 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. |
| Azerbaijan | Romania | 2,205 | 14.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Côte d’Ivoire | Romania | 613 | 4.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Romania | 601 | 4.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Guyana | Romania | 560 | 3.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Türkiye | Romania | 513 | 3.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Iraq | Greece | 420 | 41.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's petrol to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Greece | 230 | 22.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's petrol to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Kazakhstan | Greece | 224 | 22.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's petrol to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Romania | 99 | 0.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Bulgaria split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Greece | 51 | 5.0% | 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. |
| Norway | Greece | 47 | 4.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's petrol to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Guyana | Greece | 21 | 2.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's petrol to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Azerbaijan | Greece | 21 | 2.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Greece's petrol to Bulgaria split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium. |
Source & method
Source Period 2026-01 (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
- 2026-01 (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: Bulgaria’s supply of petrol in 2026-01, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2026-01 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2025-11 to 2026-01.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Bulgaria: crude origin not reported (116,106 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Romania: crude not from imports (4,008 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.
- Bulgaria: crude not from imports (2,845 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 (51 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. 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.