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 October 2025, Luxembourg's petrol supply was 36 kt, all of it imported, from Belgium (80%) and Germany (20%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Norway (21%), Kazakhstan (17%) and the United States (12%), and 10% cannot be traced.

The numbers as a table
Reported: where Luxembourg's petrol came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
BelgiumLuxembourg: petrol supply28,80080.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
GermanyLuxembourg: petrol supply7,18220.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Estimate: the crude oil behind each supplier's fuel
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
NorwayBelgium6,67923.2%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanBelgium5,22518.1%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsBelgium5,15817.9%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
United StatesBelgium3,38811.8%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
Belgium: crude origin not reportedBelgium2,3618.2%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
BrazilBelgium2,3378.1%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsGermany2,29532.0%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
GuyanaBelgium1,7326.0%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaBelgium1,0203.5%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanGermany99513.9%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
NorwayGermany99413.8%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
United StatesGermany97213.5%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
United KingdomGermany6949.7%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
Germany: crude origin not reportedGermany5908.2%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
United KingdomBelgium5622.0%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaGermany3625.0%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsBelgium3371.2%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.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsGermany1662.3%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.
BrazilGermany1141.6%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-08 to 2025-10. Confidence: medium.
Source & method
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2025-10 (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: Luxembourg’s supply of petrol in 2025-10, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.

Month: 2025-10 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2025-08 to 2025-10.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Belgium: crude origin not reported (2,361 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
  • Germany: crude origin not reported (590 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
  • Smaller flows: crude not from imports (503 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.

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