Fuel Origin

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, Lithuania's petrol supply was 231 kt: 99% from its own refineries; tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Saudi Arabia (62%), Norway (18%) and Algeria (15%), and 1% cannot be traced.

Tap a country to follow its flows. Tap it again, or use the close button, to clear.

  • Reported (solid)
  • Our arithmetic on reported figures (dotted)
  • Estimated crude behind the fuel (dashed)
  • Cannot be traced (hatched)
The numbers as a table
Reported: where Lithuania's petrol came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Lithuania (own refineries)Lithuania: petrol supply227,90098.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output)
FinlandLithuania: petrol supply2,7001.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Estimate: the crude oil behind each supplier's fuel
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Saudi ArabiaLithuania (own refineries)143,73563.1%EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium.
NorwayLithuania (own refineries)38,48816.9%EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium.
AlgeriaLithuania (own refineries)34,61415.2%EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium.
United KingdomLithuania (own refineries)9,3014.1%EstimatedEstimate: Lithuania's petrol to Lithuania split by Lithuania's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium.
NorwayFinland2,49992.6%EstimatedEstimate: Finland's petrol to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsLithuania (own refineries)1,7630.8%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.
United KingdomFinland1094.0%EstimatedEstimate: Finland's petrol to Lithuania split by Finland's crude-import mix over 2024-12 to 2025-02. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude origin not reportedFinland612.2%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsFinland311.1%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
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2025-02 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:30 UTCConfidenceMediumMethodologyDownload CSV

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 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

  • Smaller flows: crude not from imports (1,793 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 (61 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.

Lithuania: country page