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 August 2025, Croatia's petrol supply was 104 kt: 79% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Slovenia (9%) and Slovakia (7%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Libya (36%), Azerbaijan (20%) and Kazakhstan (18%), and 19% cannot be traced.

The numbers as a table
Reported: where Croatia's petrol came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Croatia (own refineries)Croatia: petrol supply82,20079.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output)
SloveniaCroatia: petrol supply9,7009.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
SlovakiaCroatia: petrol supply6,9006.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
HungaryCroatia: petrol supply2,4002.3%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
SerbiaCroatia: petrol supply2,3002.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Estimate: the crude oil behind each supplier's fuel
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
LibyaCroatia (own refineries)37,03745.1%EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's petrol to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2025-06 to 2025-08. Confidence: medium.
AzerbaijanCroatia (own refineries)19,97024.3%EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's petrol to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2025-06 to 2025-08. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanCroatia (own refineries)18,24922.2%EstimatedEstimate: Croatia's petrol to Croatia split by Croatia's crude-import mix over 2025-06 to 2025-08. Confidence: medium.
Slovenia: no refinerySlovenia9,700100.0%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.
Croatia: crude not from importsCroatia (own refineries)6,9448.4%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.
RussiaSlovakia5,20875.5%EstimatedEstimate: Slovakia's petrol to Croatia split by Slovakia's crude-import mix over 2025-06 to 2025-08. Confidence: medium.
Serbia: no crude dataSerbia2,300100.0%UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
RussiaHungary1,88378.5%EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Croatia split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2025-06 to 2025-08. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsSlovakia4907.1%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 ArabiaSlovakia4786.9%EstimatedEstimate: Slovakia's petrol to Croatia split by Slovakia's crude-import mix over 2025-06 to 2025-08. Confidence: medium.
HungarySlovakia4416.4%EstimatedEstimate: Slovakia's petrol to Croatia split by Slovakia's crude-import mix over 2025-06 to 2025-08. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanHungary38215.9%EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Croatia split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2025-06 to 2025-08. Confidence: medium.
AzerbaijanSlovakia2834.1%EstimatedEstimate: Slovakia's petrol to Croatia split by Slovakia's crude-import mix over 2025-06 to 2025-08. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsHungary1365.7%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.
Source & method
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2025-08 (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 petrol in 2025-08, 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: 2025-08 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2025-06 to 2025-08.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Slovenia: no refinery (9,700 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 (6,944 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.
  • Serbia: no crude data (2,300 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
  • Smaller flows: crude not from imports (625 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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