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 January 2024, Cyprus' road diesel supply was 40 kt, all of it imported, from Greece (59%) and Israel (41%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Iraq (22%), Kazakhstan (14%) and Libya (9%), and 43% 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)

Israel: no crude data → Cyprus

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

16.2 thousand tonnes

41% of Cyprus's road diesel supply

Unknown

Last shipped from

  • Israel16 kt (100%)

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

The numbers as a table
Reported: where Cyprus's road diesel came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
GreeceCyprus: road diesel supply23,40559.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
IsraelCyprus: road diesel supply16,21940.9%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Estimate: the crude oil behind each supplier's fuel
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Israel: no crude dataIsrael16,219100.0%UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
IraqGreece8,71537.2%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanGreece5,60924.0%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
LibyaGreece3,54815.2%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsGreece1,3936.0%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
Saudi ArabiaGreece9304.0%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
EgyptGreece8753.7%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
United StatesGreece7183.1%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
AzerbaijanGreece6392.7%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's road diesel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-11 to 2024-01. Confidence: medium.
Greece: crude origin not reportedGreece4912.1%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
Greece: crude not from importsGreece4862.1%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.
Source & method
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2024-01 (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: Cyprus’s supply of road diesel in 2024-01, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.

Month: 2024-01 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2023-11 to 2024-01.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Israel: no crude data (16,219 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
  • Greece: crude origin not reported (491 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
  • Greece: crude not from imports (486 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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