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 November 2023, Latvia's road diesel supply was 105 kt, all of it imported, mainly from Lithuania (71%), Finland (23%) and the Netherlands (5%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Norway (45%), the United States (20%) and Saudi Arabia (19%), and 6% cannot be traced.
Country
Norway47 kt (est. 45%)United States21 kt (est. 20%)Saudi Arabia20 kt (est. 19%)United Kingdom7.8 kt (est. 7%)Brazil1.2 kt (est. 1%)Iraq0.6 kt (est. <1%)Nigeria0.6 kt (est. <1%)Other crude origins0.6 kt (est. <1%)Finland: crude not from imports2.6 kt (2%)Lithuania: crude not from imports2.4 kt (2%)Smaller flows: no crude data0.9 kt (<1%)Smaller flows: crude origin not reported0.3 kt (<1%)Smaller flows: no refinery0.2 kt (<1%)Lithuania75 kt (71%)Finland24 kt (23%)Netherlands5.3 kt (5%)United States0.9 kt (<1%)Estonia0.2 kt (<1%)Latvia: road diesel supply105 kt (100%)
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Lithuania
- Finland
- Netherlands
- United States
- Estonia
- Norway47 kt (est. 45%)
- United States21 kt (est. 20%)
- Saudi Arabia20 kt (est. 19%)
- United Kingdom7.8 kt (est. 7%)
- Brazil1.2 kt (est. 1%)
- Iraq0.6 kt (est. <1%)
- Nigeria0.6 kt (est. <1%)
- Other crude origins0.6 kt (est. <1%)
- Finland: crude not from imports2.6 kt (2%)
- Lithuania: crude not from imports2.4 kt (2%)
- Smaller flows: no crude data0.9 kt (<1%)
- Smaller flows: crude origin not reported0.3 kt (<1%)
- Smaller flows: no refinery0.2 kt (<1%)
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 | Latvia: road diesel supply | 74,804 | 71.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Finland | Latvia: road diesel supply | 23,822 | 22.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Latvia: road diesel supply | 5,349 | 5.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Latvia: road diesel supply | 850 | 0.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Estonia | Latvia: road diesel supply | 177 | 0.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | Lithuania | 28,708 | 38.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Latvia split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Saudi Arabia | Lithuania | 19,744 | 26.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Latvia split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Lithuania | 17,784 | 23.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Latvia split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Finland | 17,516 | 73.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's road diesel to Latvia split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Lithuania | 6,167 | 8.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Latvia split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Finland: crude not from imports | Finland | 2,569 | 10.8% | 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. |
| Lithuania: crude not from imports | Lithuania | 2,401 | 3.2% | 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 States | Finland | 2,035 | 8.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's road diesel to Latvia split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Netherlands | 1,485 | 27.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Latvia split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Finland | 977 | 4.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's road diesel to Latvia split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: no crude data | United States | 850 | 100.0% | UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on. |
| Brazil | Finland | 725 | 3.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's road diesel to Latvia split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Netherlands | 682 | 12.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Latvia split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Iraq | Netherlands | 629 | 11.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Latvia split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 614 | 11.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Latvia split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Other crude origins | Netherlands | 589 | 11.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Latvia split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Nigeria | Netherlands | 582 | 10.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Latvia split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Brazil | Netherlands | 436 | 8.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Latvia split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude origin not reported | Netherlands | 261 | 4.9% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Smaller flows: no refinery | Estonia | 177 | 100.0% | UnknownThe supplying country has no crude oil refinery (a cited confirmed zero), so the fuel was made elsewhere and passed through. We look back one step only. |
| Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | 70 | 1.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Latvia split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2023-09 to 2023-11. Confidence: medium. |
Source & method
Source Period 2023-11 (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
- 2023-11 (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: Latvia’s supply of road diesel in 2023-11, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2023-11 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2023-09 to 2023-11.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Finland: crude not from imports (2,569 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.
- Lithuania: crude not from imports (2,401 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: no crude data (850 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 (261 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Smaller flows: no refinery (177 t): The supplying country has no crude oil refinery (a cited confirmed zero), so the fuel was made elsewhere and passed through. We look back one step only.
- 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.