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 2024, Estonia's road diesel supply was 117 kt, all of it imported, from Lithuania (67%) and Finland (33%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Norway (42%), Saudi Arabia (27%) and the United Kingdom (11%), and 6% cannot be traced.
Country
Norway49 kt (est. 42%)Saudi Arabia32 kt (est. 27%)United Kingdom13 kt (est. 11%)United States11 kt (est. 9%)Algeria5.4 kt (est. 5%)Finland: crude not from imports2.8 kt (2%)Finland: crude origin not reported2.3 kt (2%)Lithuania: crude not from imports1.7 kt (1%)Lithuania78 kt (67%)Finland39 kt (33%)Estonia: road diesel supply117 kt (100%)
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Crude origin (estimate)
Where the fuel was refined
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lithuania | Estonia: road diesel supply | 78,000 | 66.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Finland | Estonia: road diesel supply | 39,000 | 33.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | Lithuania | 31,942 | 41.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Estonia split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Finland | 30,597 | 78.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's road diesel to Estonia split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Lithuania | 18,123 | 23.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Estonia split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Lithuania | 11,926 | 15.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Estonia split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Lithuania | 8,891 | 11.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Estonia split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Algeria | Lithuania | 5,424 | 7.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Estonia split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Finland: crude not from imports | Finland | 2,818 | 7.2% | 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. |
| Finland: crude origin not reported | Finland | 2,254 | 5.8% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| United States | Finland | 1,807 | 4.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's road diesel to Estonia split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Lithuania: crude not from imports | Lithuania | 1,694 | 2.2% | 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. |
| United Kingdom | Finland | 1,525 | 3.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's road diesel to Estonia split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
Source & method
Source Period 2024-08 (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
- 2024-08 (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 countries whose refineries made it. Right: Estonia’s supply of road diesel in 2024-08, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2024-08 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-06 to 2024-08.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Finland: crude not from imports (2,818 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.
- Finland: crude origin not reported (2,254 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Lithuania: crude not from imports (1,694 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; fuel re-exported through a supplier is not followed further.
- Widths are tonnes of this fuel, not tonnes of crude oil: a refinery makes several products from each tonne of crude.