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 November 2025, Malta's jet fuel supply was 13 kt, all of it imported, from Türkiye (51%) and Italy (49%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Libya (11%), Azerbaijan (7%) and the United States (6%), and 58% 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 Malta's jet fuel came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
TürkiyeMalta: jet fuel supply6,80851.4%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
ItalyMalta: jet fuel supply6,44148.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Estimate: the crude oil behind each supplier's fuel
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Türkiye: no crude dataTürkiye6,808100.0%UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
LibyaItaly1,41822.0%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's jet fuel to Malta split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2025-09 to 2025-11. Confidence: medium.
AzerbaijanItaly93614.5%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's jet fuel to Malta split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2025-09 to 2025-11. Confidence: medium.
United StatesItaly85013.2%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's jet fuel to Malta split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2025-09 to 2025-11. Confidence: medium.
Italy: crude not from importsItaly81612.7%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.
Other crude originsItaly74911.6%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's jet fuel to Malta split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2025-09 to 2025-11. Confidence: medium.
KazakhstanItaly6389.9%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's jet fuel to Malta split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2025-09 to 2025-11. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaItaly3495.4%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's jet fuel to Malta split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2025-09 to 2025-11. Confidence: medium.
Saudi ArabiaItaly3435.3%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's jet fuel to Malta split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2025-09 to 2025-11. Confidence: medium.
IraqItaly3415.3%EstimatedEstimate: Italy's jet fuel to Malta split by Italy's crude-import mix over 2025-09 to 2025-11. Confidence: medium.
Source & method
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2025-11 (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: Malta’s supply of jet fuel in 2025-11, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.

Month: 2025-11 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2025-09 to 2025-11.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Türkiye: no crude data (6,808 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
  • Italy: crude not from imports (816 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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