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 September 2024, Malta's petrol supply was 15 kt, all of it imported, from Romania (100%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Kazakhstan (43%), Azerbaijan (9%) and Libya (5%), and 29% cannot be traced.
Country
Kazakhstan6.5 kt (est. 43%)Azerbaijan1.3 kt (est. 9%)Libya0.8 kt (est. 5%)Congo0.7 kt (est. 4%)Norway0.6 kt (est. 4%)Canada0.4 kt (est. 3%)Côte d’Ivoire0.4 kt (est. 2%)Gabon0.3 kt (est. 2%)Romania: crude not from imports3.7 kt (24%)Romania: crude origin not reported0.7 kt (4%)Romania15 kt (100%)Malta: petrol supply15 kt (100%)
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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)
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | Malta: petrol supply | 15,391 | 100.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan | Romania | 6,550 | 42.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Malta split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-07 to 2024-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Romania: crude not from imports | Romania | 3,749 | 24.4% | 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. |
| Azerbaijan | Romania | 1,329 | 8.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Malta split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-07 to 2024-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Libya | Romania | 810 | 5.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Malta split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-07 to 2024-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Romania: crude origin not reported | Romania | 677 | 4.4% | UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from. |
| Congo | Romania | 667 | 4.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Malta split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-07 to 2024-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Romania | 578 | 3.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Malta split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-07 to 2024-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Canada | Romania | 395 | 2.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Malta split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-07 to 2024-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Côte d’Ivoire | Romania | 351 | 2.3% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Malta split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-07 to 2024-09. Confidence: medium. |
| Gabon | Romania | 286 | 1.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Malta split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-07 to 2024-09. Confidence: medium. |
Source & method
Source Period 2024-09 (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
- 2024-09 (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 petrol in 2024-09, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.
Month: 2024-09 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-07 to 2024-09.
Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason
- Romania: crude not from imports (3,749 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.
- Romania: crude origin not reported (677 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.