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 2024, Lithuania's petrol supply was 223 kt: 99% from its own refineries; tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Norway (43%), Saudi Arabia (33%) and the United Kingdom (15%), and less than 1% cannot be traced.
Country
Month
Nov 2024
Latest month that can be drawn
| 2026 | |
|---|---|
| 2025 | |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 |
Norway96 kt (est. 43%)Saudi Arabia73 kt (est. 33%)United Kingdom33 kt (est. 15%)United States11 kt (est. 5%)Algeria8.9 kt (est. 4%)Guyana0.2 kt (est. <1%)Denmark0.1 kt (est. <1%)Smaller flows: crude not from imports0.6 kt (<1%)Lithuania (own refineries)220 kt (99%)Finland3.3 kt (1%)Lithuania: petrol supply223 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)
- Dashed: estimated from published euro value
- Reported (solid)
- Our arithmetic on reported figures (dotted)
- Estimated crude behind the fuel (dashed)
- Cannot be traced (hatched)
- Dashed: estimated from published euro value
The numbers as a table
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lithuania (own refineries) | Lithuania: petrol supply | 219,500 | 98.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Finland | Lithuania: petrol supply | 3,300 | 1.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norway | Lithuania (own refineries) | 93,732 | 42.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Saudi Arabia | Lithuania (own refineries) | 72,972 | 33.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium. |
| United Kingdom | Lithuania (own refineries) | 32,680 | 14.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Lithuania (own refineries) | 10,562 | 4.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Algeria | Lithuania (own refineries) | 8,922 | 4.1% | EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Finland | 2,015 | 61.0% | EstimatedPartly estimated from published euro value. Estimate: Finland's petrol to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Finland did not publish its crude imports for part of that window; those months use crude imports estimated from the euro values it did publish (customs basis). |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Lithuania (own refineries) | 632 | 0.3% | 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 | Finland | 567 | 17.2% | EstimatedPartly estimated from published euro value. Estimate: Finland's petrol to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Finland did not publish its crude imports for part of that window; those months use crude imports estimated from the euro values it did publish (customs basis). |
| United States | Finland | 424 | 12.9% | EstimatedPartly estimated from published euro value. Estimate: Finland's petrol to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Finland did not publish its crude imports for part of that window; those months use crude imports estimated from the euro values it did publish (customs basis). |
| Guyana | Finland | 166 | 5.0% | EstimatedPartly estimated from published euro value. Estimate: Finland's petrol to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Finland did not publish its crude imports for part of that window; those months use crude imports estimated from the euro values it did publish (customs basis). |
| Denmark | Finland | 128 | 3.9% | EstimatedPartly estimated from published euro value. Estimate: Finland's petrol to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Finland did not publish its crude imports for part of that window; those months use crude imports estimated from the euro values it did publish (customs basis). |
Source & method
Source Period 2024-11 (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
- 2024-11 (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 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 2024-11, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Dashed crude links rest partly on crude imports estimated from published euro values: a supplier did not publish its crude imports for some months of the window (docs/METHODOLOGY.md section 6.1). Customs basis, INFERRED. Method
Month: 2024-11 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-09 to 2024-11.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports (632 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.