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 August 2024, Malta's road diesel supply was 18 kt, all of it imported, from Spain (100%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from the United States (14%), Brazil (13%) and Nigeria (12%), and 5% cannot be traced.
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Crude origin (estimate)
Last shipped from
- Reported (solid)
- Our arithmetic on reported figures (dotted)
- Estimated crude behind the fuel (dashed)
- Cannot be traced (hatched)
Crude behind this road diesel, an estimate (Aug 2024)
2.3 thousand tonnes
est. 13% of Malta's road diesel supply
less than 0.1 kt reported2.3 kt estimated
Inferred · medium
Last shipped from
- Spain2.3 kt (est. 100%)
Source: Fuel Origin fuel-chain look-through (docs/HORMUZ_METHOD.md section 8), built on Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm and nrg_cb_oilm
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | Malta: road diesel supply | 18,423 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other crude origins | Spain | 4,685 | 25.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Malta split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Spain | 2,625 | 14.2% | EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Malta split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Brazil | Spain | 2,341 | 12.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Malta split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Nigeria | Spain | 2,258 | 12.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Malta split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Mexico | Spain | 2,019 | 11.0% | EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Malta split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Libya | Spain | 1,239 | 6.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Malta split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Venezuela | Spain | 1,186 | 6.4% | EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Malta split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Angola | Spain | 1,088 | 5.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Malta split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Spain: crude origin not reported | Spain | 794 | 4.3% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Spain: crude not from imports | Spain | 188 | 1.0% | 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
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
- 2024-08 (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: Malta’s supply of road diesel in 2024-08, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2024-08 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-06 to 2024-08.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Spain: crude origin not reported (794 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
- Spain: crude not from imports (188 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.