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 January 2025, Lithuania's road diesel supply was 276 kt: 91% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Finland (7%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Saudi Arabia (56%), Norway (27%) and Algeria (14%), and 2% cannot be traced.
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Lithuania (own refineries)
- Finland
- Latvia
- Netherlands
- India
- Saudi Arabia154 kt (est. 56%)
- Norway74 kt (est. 27%)
- Algeria39 kt (est. 14%)
- United Kingdom1.5 kt (est. <1%)
- United States0.5 kt (est. <1%)
- Brazil0.2 kt (est. <1%)
- Iraq0.2 kt (est. <1%)
- Other crude origins0.3 kt (est. <1%)
- Latvia: no refinery4.6 kt (2%)
- Smaller flows: no crude data1.2 kt (<1%)
- Smaller flows: crude origin not reported0.5 kt (<1%)
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports0.1 kt (<1%)
Last shipped from
- Reported (solid)
- Our arithmetic on reported figures (dotted)
- Estimated crude behind the fuel (dashed)
- Cannot be traced (hatched)
Total supply (Jan 2025)
275.9 thousand tonnes
100% of Lithuania's road diesel supply
Official
Last shipped from
- Lithuania (own refineries)250 kt (91%)
- Finland18 kt (7%)
- Latvia4.6 kt (2%)
and 2 more in the table above
Source: Eurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output); Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
- 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 (own refineries) | Lithuania: road diesel supply | 250,100 | 90.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Finland | Lithuania: road diesel supply | 18,000 | 6.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Latvia | Lithuania: road diesel supply | 4,600 | 1.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| Netherlands | Lithuania: road diesel supply | 2,000 | 0.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| India | Lithuania: road diesel supply | 1,200 | 0.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | Lithuania (own refineries) | 154,219 | 61.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Lithuania (own refineries) | 56,931 | 22.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Algeria | Lithuania (own refineries) | 38,950 | 15.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's road diesel to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Finland | 16,267 | 90.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's road diesel to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Latvia: no refinery | Latvia | 4,600 | 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. |
| United Kingdom | Finland | 1,336 | 7.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's road diesel to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: no crude data | India | 1,200 | 100.0% | UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on. |
| United States | Netherlands | 542 | 27.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Lithuania split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude origin not reported | Finland | 397 | 2.2% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Other crude origins | Netherlands | 347 | 17.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Lithuania split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Netherlands | 309 | 15.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Lithuania split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Brazil | Netherlands | 199 | 10.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Lithuania split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Iraq | Netherlands | 179 | 8.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Lithuania split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 162 | 8.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Lithuania split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Netherlands | 120 | 6.0% | 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. |
| Smaller flows: crude origin not reported | Netherlands | 112 | 5.6% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | 29 | 1.5% | EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Lithuania split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2024-11 to 2025-01. Confidence: medium. |
Source & method
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
- 2025-01 (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: Lithuania’s supply of road diesel in 2025-01, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Countries without a crude refinery can appear under "Last shipped from": the importing country's statistics record where the fuel arrived from. It was refined elsewhere and either sold on or passed through that country's terminals; the statistics do not say which, or where it was refined.
Month: 2025-01 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-11 to 2025-01.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Latvia: no refinery (4,600 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.
- Smaller flows: no crude data (1,200 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 (509 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports (120 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.