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 petrol supply was 103 kt: 79% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Italy (12%) and Slovenia (9%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Azerbaijan (51%) and Nigeria (11%), and 29% cannot be traced.
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Croatia (own refineries)
- Italy
- Slovenia
- Hungary
- Azerbaijan53 kt (est. 51%)
- Nigeria12 kt (est. 11%)
- Libya2.7 kt (est. 3%)
- Kazakhstan1.5 kt (est. 1%)
- United States1.0 kt (est. <1%)
- Iraq1.0 kt (est. <1%)
- Saudi Arabia0.8 kt (est. <1%)
- Other crude origins1.3 kt (est. 1%)
- Croatia: crude not from imports20 kt (19%)
- Slovenia: no refinery9.6 kt (9%)
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports1.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croatia (own refineries) | Croatia: petrol supply | 81,458 | 79.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Italy | Croatia: petrol supply | 12,047 | 11.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Slovenia | Croatia: petrol supply | 9,600 | 9.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azerbaijan | Croatia (own refineries) | 50,700 | 62.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's petrol to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Croatia: crude not from imports | Croatia (own refineries) | 19,545 | 24.0% | 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. |
| Nigeria | Croatia (own refineries) | 11,213 | 13.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's petrol to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Slovenia: no refinery | Slovenia | 9,600 | 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. |
| Libya | Italy | 2,733 | 22.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Italy's petrol to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Azerbaijan | Italy | 2,145 | 17.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Italy's petrol to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Kazakhstan | Italy | 1,537 | 12.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Italy's petrol to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Italy | 1,293 | 10.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Italy's petrol to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Italy | 993 | 8.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Italy's petrol to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Iraq | Italy | 982 | 8.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Italy's petrol to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Italy | 955 | 7.9% | 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 Arabia | Italy | 795 | 6.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Italy's petrol to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Nigeria | Italy | 615 | 5.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Italy's petrol to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Hungary | 1 | 72.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Croatia split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Kazakhstan | Hungary | 0 | 13.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Croatia split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2024-05 to 2024-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Hungary | 0 | 13.5% | 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
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
- 2024-07 (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 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 petrol 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
- Croatia: crude not from imports (19,545 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.
- Slovenia: no refinery (9,600 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.
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports (955 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.