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 December 2023, Cyprus' jet fuel supply was 37 kt, all of it imported, from Greece (65%) and Israel (35%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Iraq (28%), Kazakhstan (11%) and Libya (7%), and 40% 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)
The numbers as a table
Reported: where Cyprus's jet fuel came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
GreeceCyprus: jet fuel supply24,15364.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
IsraelCyprus: jet fuel supply13,19435.3%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 dataIsrael13,194100.0%UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
IraqGreece10,42543.2%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's jet fuel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-10 to 2023-12. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanGreece4,14517.2%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's jet fuel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-10 to 2023-12. Confidence: medium.
LibyaGreece2,77811.5%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's jet fuel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-10 to 2023-12. Confidence: medium.
United StatesGreece1,2555.2%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's jet fuel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-10 to 2023-12. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsGreece1,2155.0%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's jet fuel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-10 to 2023-12. Confidence: medium.
EgyptGreece1,1304.7%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's jet fuel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-10 to 2023-12. Confidence: medium.
Greece: crude not from importsGreece1,0704.4%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.
Saudi ArabiaGreece9614.0%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's jet fuel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-10 to 2023-12. Confidence: medium.
AzerbaijanGreece6612.7%EstimatedEstimate: Greece's jet fuel to Cyprus split by Greece's crude-import mix over 2023-10 to 2023-12. Confidence: medium.
Greece: crude origin not reportedGreece5142.1%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
Source & method
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2023-12 (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 jet fuel in 2023-12, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.

Month: 2023-12 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2023-10 to 2023-12.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Israel: no crude data (13,194 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
  • Greece: crude not from imports (1,070 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.
  • Greece: crude origin not reported (514 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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