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 July 2024, Croatia's road diesel supply was 341 kt: 35% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Italy (41%), Slovenia (17%) and Bulgaria (6%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Azerbaijan (29%), Libya (9%) and Nigeria (7%), and 35% cannot be traced.

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  • Reported (solid)
  • Our arithmetic on reported figures (dotted)
  • Estimated crude behind the fuel (dashed)
  • Cannot be traced (hatched)

Saudi Arabia → Croatia

Crude behind this road diesel, an estimate (Jul 2024)

9.2 thousand tonnes

est. 3% of Croatia's road diesel supply

less than 0.1 kt reported9.2 kt estimated

Inferred · medium

Last shipped from

  • Italy9.2 kt (est. 100%)

Source: Fuel Origin fuel-chain look-through (docs/HORMUZ_METHOD.md section 8), built on Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm and nrg_cb_oilm

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The numbers as a table
Reported: where Croatia's road diesel came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
ItalyCroatia: road diesel supply139,20340.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Croatia (own refineries)Croatia: road diesel supply120,85035.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output)
SloveniaCroatia: road diesel supply58,85117.3%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
BulgariaCroatia: road diesel supply21,8156.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Estimate: the crude oil behind each supplier's fuel
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
AzerbaijanCroatia (own refineries)75,21962.2%EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's road diesel to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
Slovenia: no refinerySlovenia58,851100.0%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.
LibyaItaly31,57522.7%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
Croatia: crude not from importsCroatia (own refineries)28,99724.0%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.
AzerbaijanItaly24,78317.8%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
Bulgaria: crude origin not reportedBulgaria21,815100.0%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
KazakhstanItaly17,76212.8%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaCroatia (own refineries)16,63513.8%EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's road diesel to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsItaly14,93710.7%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
United StatesItaly11,4768.2%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
IraqItaly11,3498.2%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
Italy: crude not from importsItaly11,0337.9%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.
Saudi ArabiaItaly9,1816.6%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaItaly7,1065.1%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsHungary472.9%EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's road diesel to Croatia split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanHungary113.6%EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's road diesel to Croatia split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsHungary113.5%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.

One flow with a share under 0.1% is not listed here. It is 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 2024-07 (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: Croatia’s supply of road diesel in 2024-07, 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: 2024-07 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-05 to 2024-07.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Slovenia: no refinery (58,851 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.
  • Croatia: crude not from imports (28,997 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 origin not reported (21,815 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
  • Italy: crude not from imports (11,033 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 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.

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