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 September 2023, Lithuania's petrol supply was 263 kt: 98% from its own refineries; tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Saudi Arabia (37%), the United States (26%) and Norway (25%), and 5% cannot be traced.
Country
Month
Sep 2023
Latest month that can be drawn
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|---|---|
| 2025 | |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 |
Saudi Arabia97 kt (est. 37%)United States69 kt (est. 26%)Norway65 kt (est. 25%)United Kingdom10 kt (est. 4%)Algeria8.5 kt (est. 3%)Lithuania: crude not from imports12 kt (5%)Smaller flows: crude not from imports0.6 kt (<1%)Smaller flows: crude origin not reported0.2 kt (<1%)Lithuania (own refineries)259 kt (98%)Finland4.2 kt (2%)Lithuania: petrol supply263 kt (100%)
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Lithuania (own refineries)
- Finland
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lithuania (own refineries) | Lithuania: petrol supply | 258,800 | 98.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Finland | Lithuania: petrol supply | 4,200 | 1.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saudi Arabia | Lithuania (own refineries) | 96,763 | 37.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2023-07 to 2023-09. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Lithuania (own refineries) | 68,866 | 26.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2023-07 to 2023-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Lithuania (own refineries) | 62,700 | 24.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2023-07 to 2023-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Lithuania: crude not from imports | Lithuania (own refineries) | 12,046 | 4.7% | 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. |
| United Kingdom | Lithuania (own refineries) | 9,938 | 3.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2023-07 to 2023-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Algeria | Lithuania (own refineries) | 8,486 | 3.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2023-07 to 2023-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Finland | 2,591 | 61.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's petrol to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2023-07 to 2023-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Finland | 617 | 14.7% | 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. |
| United States | Finland | 504 | 12.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's petrol to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2023-07 to 2023-09. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Finland | 331 | 7.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Finland's petrol to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2023-07 to 2023-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude origin not reported | Finland | 157 | 3.7% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
Source & method
Source Period 2023-09 (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
- 2023-09 (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 petrol in 2023-09, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2023-09 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2023-07 to 2023-09.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Lithuania: crude not from imports (12,046 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 not from imports (617 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 (157 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.