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 January 2026, Luxembourg's petrol supply was 31 kt, all of it imported, from Belgium (87%) and Germany (13%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Norway (28%), the United States (20%) and Kazakhstan (12%), and 1% cannot be traced.

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  • 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 Luxembourg's petrol came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
BelgiumLuxembourg: petrol supply27,24186.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
GermanyLuxembourg: petrol supply4,12813.2%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Estimate: the crude oil behind each supplier's fuel
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
NorwayBelgium8,13129.8%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
United StatesBelgium5,65920.8%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsBelgium3,99014.6%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanBelgium3,09811.4%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
GuyanaBelgium2,7079.9%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaBelgium1,8676.9%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsGermany1,03225.0%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
CanadaBelgium9913.6%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
United KingdomBelgium7982.9%EstimatedEstimate: Belgium's petrol to Luxembourg split by Belgium's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
NorwayGermany71517.3%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanGermany65115.8%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
United StatesGermany62915.2%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
United KingdomGermany42110.2%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude origin not reportedGermany2716.6%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
GuyanaGermany1383.3%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaGermany1192.9%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
CanadaGermany892.2%EstimatedEstimate: Germany's petrol to Luxembourg split by Germany's crude-import mix over 2025-11 to 2026-01. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsGermany631.5%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 2026-01 (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 2026-01, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.

Month: 2026-01 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2025-11 to 2026-01.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Smaller flows: crude origin not reported (271 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
  • Smaller flows: crude not from imports (63 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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