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 July 2023, Finland's petrol supply was 401 kt: 87% from its own refineries, with imports from Sweden (13%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Norway (72%), the United States (14%) and the United Kingdom (9%), and 3% cannot be traced.
Country
Norway287 kt (est. 72%)United States55 kt (est. 14%)United Kingdom37 kt (est. 9%)Nigeria5.5 kt (est. 1%)Angola1.6 kt (est. <1%)Libya1.0 kt (est. <1%)Finland: crude origin not reported12 kt (3%)Smaller flows: crude not from imports1.7 kt (<1%)Finland (own refineries)349 kt (87%)Sweden52 kt (13%)Finland: petrol supply401 kt (100%)
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Finland (own refineries)
- Sweden
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finland (own refineries) | Finland: petrol supply | 349,000 | 87.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Sweden | Finland: petrol supply | 52,000 | 13.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | Finland (own refineries) | 253,639 | 72.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's petrol to Finland split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2023-05 to 2023-07. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Finland (own refineries) | 52,540 | 15.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's petrol to Finland split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2023-05 to 2023-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Sweden | 33,209 | 63.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Finland split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2023-05 to 2023-07. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Finland (own refineries) | 30,999 | 8.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's petrol to Finland split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2023-05 to 2023-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Finland: crude origin not reported | Finland (own refineries) | 11,822 | 3.4% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| United Kingdom | Sweden | 6,026 | 11.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Finland split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2023-05 to 2023-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Nigeria | Sweden | 5,543 | 10.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Finland split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2023-05 to 2023-07. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Sweden | 2,884 | 5.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Finland split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2023-05 to 2023-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Sweden | 1,745 | 3.4% | 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. |
| Angola | Sweden | 1,598 | 3.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Finland split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2023-05 to 2023-07. Confidence: medium. |
| Libya | Sweden | 996 | 1.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Sweden's petrol to Finland split by Sweden's crude-import mix over 2023-05 to 2023-07. Confidence: medium. |
Source & method
Source Period 2023-07 (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
- 2023-07 (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: Finland’s supply of petrol in 2023-07, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2023-07 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2023-05 to 2023-07.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Finland: crude origin not reported (11,822 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports (1,745 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.