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 February 2025, Ireland's petrol supply was 85 kt: 42% from its own refineries, with imports from the Netherlands (33%) and the United Kingdom (25%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from the United States (32%), Azerbaijan (10%) and Spain (9%), and 27% cannot be traced.
Country
United States27 kt (est. 32%)Azerbaijan8.5 kt (est. 10%)Spain7.4 kt (est. 9%)Norway4.8 kt (est. 6%)Kazakhstan3.3 kt (est. 4%)United Kingdom3.1 kt (est. 4%)Brazil2.2 kt (est. 3%)Other crude origins5.5 kt (est. 6%)United Kingdom: no crude data22 kt (25%)Netherlands: crude origin not reported1.7 kt (2%)Smaller flows: crude not from importsless than 0.1 kt (<1%)Ireland (own refineries)36 kt (42%)Netherlands28 kt (33%)United Kingdom22 kt (25%)Ireland: petrol supply85 kt (100%)
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Ireland (own refineries)
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- United States27 kt (est. 32%)
- Azerbaijan8.5 kt (est. 10%)
- Spain7.4 kt (est. 9%)
- Norway4.8 kt (est. 6%)
- Kazakhstan3.3 kt (est. 4%)
- United Kingdom3.1 kt (est. 4%)
- Brazil2.2 kt (est. 3%)
- Other crude origins5.5 kt (est. 6%)
- United Kingdom: no crude data22 kt (25%)
- Netherlands: crude origin not reported1.7 kt (2%)
- Smaller flows: crude not from importsless than 0.1 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 | 35,705 | 41.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Netherlands | Ireland: petrol supply | 27,994 | 32.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Ireland: petrol supply | 21,532 | 25.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom: no crude data | United Kingdom | 21,532 | 100.0% | UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on. |
| United States | Ireland (own refineries) | 19,724 | 55.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Ireland's petrol to Ireland split by Ireland's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium. |
| Azerbaijan | Ireland (own refineries) | 8,533 | 23.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Ireland's petrol to Ireland split by Ireland's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium. |
| Spain | Ireland (own refineries) | 7,449 | 20.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Ireland's petrol to Ireland split by Ireland's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Netherlands | 7,337 | 26.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Netherlands | 5,456 | 19.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Netherlands | 4,833 | 17.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium. |
| Kazakhstan | Netherlands | 3,263 | 11.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 3,127 | 11.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium. |
| Brazil | Netherlands | 2,223 | 7.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's petrol to Ireland split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium. |
| Netherlands: crude origin not reported | Netherlands | 1,718 | 6.1% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Netherlands | 36 | 0.1% | 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. |
Source & method
Source Period 2025-02 (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
- 2025-02 (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 2025-02, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2025-02 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-12 to 2025-02.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- United Kingdom: no crude data (21,532 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
- Netherlands: crude origin not reported (1,718 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports (36 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.