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 2025, Croatia's petrol supply was 124 kt: 82% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Hungary (13%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Azerbaijan (29%), Libya (18%) and Nigeria (15%), and 14% cannot be traced.
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Croatia (own refineries)
- Hungary
- Slovenia
- Serbia
- Azerbaijan35 kt (est. 29%)
- Libya22 kt (est. 18%)
- Nigeria18 kt (est. 15%)
- Angola18 kt (est. 15%)
- Russia11 kt (est. 9%)
- Kazakhstan0.8 kt (est. <1%)
- Croatia0.5 kt (est. <1%)
- Croatia: crude not from imports7.9 kt (6%)
- Slovenia: no refinery5.9 kt (5%)
- Hungary: crude not from imports3.0 kt (2%)
- Smaller flows: no crude data0.6 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 | 101,800 | 82.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Hungary | Croatia: petrol supply | 15,500 | 12.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Slovenia | Croatia: petrol supply | 5,900 | 4.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Serbia | Croatia: petrol supply | 600 | 0.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azerbaijan | Croatia (own refineries) | 35,451 | 34.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's petrol to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Libya | Croatia (own refineries) | 21,965 | 21.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's petrol to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Nigeria | Croatia (own refineries) | 18,307 | 18.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's petrol to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Angola | Croatia (own refineries) | 18,188 | 17.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's petrol to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Russia | Hungary | 11,255 | 72.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Croatia split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Croatia: crude not from imports | Croatia (own refineries) | 7,890 | 7.8% | 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. |
| Slovenia: no refinery | Slovenia | 5,900 | 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. |
| Hungary: crude not from imports | Hungary | 3,001 | 19.4% | 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. |
| Kazakhstan | Hungary | 757 | 4.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Croatia split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: no crude data | Serbia | 600 | 100.0% | UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on. |
| Croatia | Hungary | 488 | 3.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Croatia split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
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
- 2025-01 (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: Croatia’s supply of petrol in 2025-01, 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: 2025-01 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-11 to 2025-01.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Croatia: crude not from imports (7,890 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 (5,900 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.
- Hungary: crude not from imports (3,001 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: no crude data (600 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
- 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.