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 October 2023, Ireland's petrol supply was 80 kt: 70% from its own refineries, with imports from the United Kingdom (20%) and the Netherlands (10%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from the United States (59%) and Norway (11%), and 22% cannot be traced.
Country
United States47 kt (est. 59%)Norway8.6 kt (est. 11%)Denmark2.7 kt (est. 3%)United Kingdom0.9 kt (est. 1%)Iraq0.9 kt (est. 1%)Brazil0.7 kt (est. <1%)Nigeria0.5 kt (est. <1%)Other crude origins1.1 kt (est. 1%)United Kingdom: no crude data16 kt (20%)Ireland: crude not from imports1.5 kt (2%)Smaller flows: crude origin not reported0.3 kt (<1%)Ireland (own refineries)56 kt (70%)United Kingdom16 kt (20%)Netherlands7.9 kt (10%)Ireland: petrol supply80 kt (100%)
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Ireland (own refineries)
- United Kingdom
- Netherlands
- United States47 kt (est. 59%)
- Norway8.6 kt (est. 11%)
- Denmark2.7 kt (est. 3%)
- United Kingdom0.9 kt (est. 1%)
- Iraq0.9 kt (est. 1%)
- Brazil0.7 kt (est. <1%)
- Nigeria0.5 kt (est. <1%)
- Other crude origins1.1 kt (est. 1%)
- United Kingdom: no crude data16 kt (20%)
- Ireland: crude not from imports1.5 kt (2%)
- Smaller flows: crude origin not reported0.3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland (own refineries) | Ireland: petrol supply | 56,177 | 70.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| United Kingdom | Ireland: petrol supply | 15,680 | 19.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Ireland: petrol supply | 7,925 | 9.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Ireland (own refineries) | 44,721 | 79.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Ireland's petrol to Ireland split by Ireland's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom: no crude data | United Kingdom | 15,680 | 100.0% | UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on. |
| Norway | Ireland (own refineries) | 7,263 | 12.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Ireland's petrol to Ireland split by Ireland's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium. |
| Denmark | Ireland (own refineries) | 2,652 | 4.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Ireland's petrol to Ireland split by Ireland's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Netherlands | 2,154 | 27.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium. |
| Ireland: crude not from imports | Ireland (own refineries) | 1,541 | 2.7% | 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 | Netherlands | 1,344 | 17.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Netherlands | 1,051 | 13.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 942 | 11.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium. |
| Iraq | Netherlands | 888 | 11.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium. |
| Brazil | Netherlands | 741 | 9.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium. |
| Nigeria | Netherlands | 538 | 6.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude origin not reported | Netherlands | 268 | 3.4% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
Source & method
Source Period 2023-10 (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
- 2023-10 (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: Ireland’s supply of petrol in 2023-10, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2023-10 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2023-08 to 2023-10.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- United Kingdom: no crude data (15,680 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
- Ireland: crude not from imports (1,541 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.
- Smaller flows: crude origin not reported (268 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.