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, Denmark's petrol supply was 207 kt: 83% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Sweden (6%) and the Netherlands (5%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from the United States (35%) and Norway (26%), and 32% cannot be traced.
Country
United States72 kt (est. 35%)Norway54 kt (est. 26%)Libya8.1 kt (est. 4%)United Kingdom1.8 kt (est. <1%)Brazil1.1 kt (est. <1%)Guyana1.0 kt (est. <1%)Iraq1.0 kt (est. <1%)Other crude origins2.3 kt (est. 1%)Denmark: crude not from imports51 kt (24%)Norway: no crude data7.0 kt (3%)United Kingdom: no crude data5.0 kt (2%)Smaller flows: crude origin not reported2.4 kt (1%)Smaller flows: crude not from imports0.7 kt (<1%)Denmark (own refineries)172 kt (83%)Sweden12 kt (6%)Netherlands11 kt (5%)Norway7.0 kt (3%)United Kingdom5.0 kt (2%)Denmark: petrol supply207 kt (100%)
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Denmark (own refineries)
- Sweden
- Netherlands
- Norway
- United Kingdom
- United States72 kt (est. 35%)
- Norway54 kt (est. 26%)
- Libya8.1 kt (est. 4%)
- United Kingdom1.8 kt (est. <1%)
- Brazil1.1 kt (est. <1%)
- Guyana1.0 kt (est. <1%)
- Iraq1.0 kt (est. <1%)
- Other crude origins2.3 kt (est. 1%)
- Denmark: crude not from imports51 kt (24%)
- Norway: no crude data7.0 kt (3%)
- United Kingdom: no crude data5.0 kt (2%)
- Smaller flows: crude origin not reported2.4 kt (1%)
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports0.7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark (own refineries) | Denmark: petrol supply | 172,000 | 83.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Sweden | Denmark: petrol supply | 12,000 | 5.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Denmark: petrol supply | 11,000 | 5.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Norway | Denmark: petrol supply | 7,000 | 3.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Denmark: petrol supply | 5,000 | 2.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Denmark (own refineries) | 67,732 | 39.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Denmark's petrol to Denmark split by Denmark's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Denmark: crude not from imports | Denmark (own refineries) | 50,682 | 29.5% | 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. |
| Norway | Denmark (own refineries) | 45,998 | 26.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Denmark's petrol to Denmark split by Denmark's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Libya | Denmark (own refineries) | 7,588 | 4.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Denmark's petrol to Denmark split by Denmark's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway: no crude data | Norway | 7,000 | 100.0% | UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on. |
| Norway | Sweden | 6,410 | 53.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Denmark split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom: no crude data | United Kingdom | 5,000 | 100.0% | UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on. |
| United States | Netherlands | 2,983 | 27.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Denmark split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Netherlands | 1,806 | 16.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Denmark split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude origin not reported | Sweden | 1,789 | 14.9% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Norway | Netherlands | 1,698 | 15.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Denmark split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Sweden | 1,112 | 9.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Denmark split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Brazil | Netherlands | 1,096 | 10.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Denmark split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Guyana | Sweden | 1,036 | 8.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Denmark split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Iraq | Netherlands | 983 | 8.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Denmark split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Sweden | 945 | 7.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Denmark split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 889 | 8.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Denmark split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Netherlands | 661 | 6.0% | 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. |
| Smaller flows: crude origin not reported | Netherlands | 617 | 5.6% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Other crude origins | Sweden | 473 | 3.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Denmark split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Libya | Netherlands | 265 | 2.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Denmark split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Libya | Sweden | 234 | 2.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Denmark split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
Source & method
Source Period 2025-01 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:30 UTCConfidenceMediumMethodologyDownload CSV
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: Denmark’s supply of petrol in 2025-01, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2025-01 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-11 to 2025-01.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Denmark: crude not from imports (50,682 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.
- Norway: no crude data (7,000 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
- United Kingdom: no crude data (5,000 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
- Smaller flows: crude origin not reported (2,406 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports (661 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.