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 July 2025, Portugal's road diesel supply was 387 kt: 79% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from Spain (19%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Brazil (32%), Algeria (17%) and the United States (13%), and 2% 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)

Algeria → Portugal

Crude behind this road diesel, an estimate (Jul 2025)

67.5 thousand tonnes

est. 17% of Portugal's road diesel supply

less than 0.1 kt reported67 kt estimated

Inferred · medium

Last shipped from

  • Portugal (own refineries)63 kt (est. 93%)
  • Spain4.4 kt (est. 7%)
  • Franceless than 0.1 kt (est. <1%)

Source: Fuel Origin fuel-chain look-through (docs/HORMUZ_METHOD.md section 8), built on Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm and nrg_cb_oilm

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The numbers as a table
Reported: where Portugal's road diesel came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Portugal (own refineries)Portugal: road diesel supply304,16278.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output)
SpainPortugal: road diesel supply72,07418.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
NetherlandsPortugal: road diesel supply10,9952.8%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Estimate: the crude oil behind each supplier's fuel
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
BrazilPortugal (own refineries)114,49637.6%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's road diesel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
AlgeriaPortugal (own refineries)63,04320.7%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's road diesel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsSpain35,81949.7%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Portugal split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
United StatesPortugal (own refineries)35,13311.6%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's road diesel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaPortugal (own refineries)30,2179.9%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's road diesel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
AzerbaijanPortugal (own refineries)26,9118.8%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's road diesel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
AngolaPortugal (own refineries)15,3675.1%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's road diesel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
CongoPortugal (own refineries)14,5934.8%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's road diesel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
United StatesSpain11,32215.7%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Portugal split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
BrazilSpain9,12312.7%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Portugal split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaSpain8,49711.8%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Portugal split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsNetherlands6,25456.9%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
AlgeriaSpain4,4266.1%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Portugal split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
Portugal: crude not from importsPortugal (own refineries)4,4011.4%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.
AngolaSpain2,3063.2%EstimatedEstimate: Spain's road diesel to Portugal split by Spain's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
United StatesNetherlands2,14719.5%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude origin not reportedNetherlands9148.3%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
BrazilNetherlands8627.8%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaNetherlands6535.9%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsSpain5790.8%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.
AngolaNetherlands1651.5%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's road diesel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsFrance1151.1%EstimatedEstimate: France's road diesel to Portugal split by France's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: no crude dataUnited Kingdom10100.0%UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
United StatesFrance522.0%EstimatedEstimate: France's road diesel to Portugal split by France's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaFrance210.5%EstimatedEstimate: France's road diesel to Portugal split by France's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
AlgeriaFrance29.0%EstimatedEstimate: France's road diesel to Portugal split by France's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
BrazilFrance12.9%EstimatedEstimate: France's road diesel to Portugal split by France's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
AngolaFrance02.2%EstimatedEstimate: France's road diesel to Portugal split by France's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude origin not reportedFrance01.7%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
AzerbaijanFrance00.7%EstimatedEstimate: France's road diesel to Portugal split by France's crude-import mix over 2025-05 to 2025-07. Confidence: medium.

2 flows with a share under 0.1% are not listed here. They are still counted in every total and drawn in the diagram, and the CSV under Source & method lists every flow.

Source & method
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2025-07 (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: Portugal’s supply of road diesel in 2025-07, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.

Month: 2025-07 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2025-05 to 2025-07.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Portugal: crude not from imports (4,401 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.
  • Smaller flows: crude origin not reported (914 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
  • Smaller flows: crude not from imports (579 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.
  • Smaller flows: no crude data (10 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
  • 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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