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 November 2024, Croatia's road diesel supply was 236 kt: 54% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Slovenia (24%), Spain (13%) and Italy (6%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Azerbaijan (39%), Nigeria (11%) and Libya (7%), and 28% cannot be traced.

The numbers as a table
Reported: where Croatia's road diesel came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Croatia (own refineries)Croatia: road diesel supply128,78954.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output)
SloveniaCroatia: road diesel supply56,94924.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
SpainCroatia: road diesel supply30,07712.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
ItalyCroatia: road diesel supply13,0085.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
BulgariaCroatia: road diesel supply7,4463.1%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)90,51570.3%EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's road diesel to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Slovenia: no refinerySlovenia56,949100.0%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.
NigeriaCroatia (own refineries)23,93318.6%EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's road diesel to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
LibyaCroatia (own refineries)14,34111.1%EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's road diesel to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsSpain9,99533.2%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Croatia split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Bulgaria: crude origin not reportedBulgaria6,73690.5%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
United StatesSpain4,52015.0%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Croatia split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
BrazilSpain4,45914.8%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Croatia split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
MexicoSpain4,21814.0%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Croatia split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsItaly3,92830.2%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaSpain2,2667.5%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Croatia split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
AzerbaijanItaly2,11516.3%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
LibyaItaly1,97715.2%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanItaly1,73613.3%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanSpain1,6305.4%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Croatia split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
United StatesItaly1,1638.9%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
LibyaSpain1,1143.7%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Croatia split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude origin not reportedSpain1,0463.5%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
NigeriaItaly9046.9%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsItaly8246.3%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.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsBulgaria7109.5%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.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsSpain4971.7%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.
AzerbaijanSpain3321.1%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Croatia split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
MexicoItaly2311.8%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's road diesel to Croatia split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude origin not reportedItaly1291.0%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
Other crude originsHungary10782.0%EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's road diesel to Croatia split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsHungary2318.0%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.

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 2024-11 (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 2024-11, 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: 2024-11 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-09 to 2024-11.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Slovenia: no refinery (56,949 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.
  • Bulgaria: crude origin not reported (6,736 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
  • Smaller flows: crude not from imports (2,055 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 origin not reported (1,175 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
  • 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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