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, Portugal's jet fuel supply was 177 kt: 73% from its own refineries, with imports from Kuwait (21%) and the South Korea (6%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Brazil (25%), Azerbaijan (17%) and Algeria (10%), and 28% cannot be traced.
Country
Brazil45 kt (est. 25%)Azerbaijan29 kt (est. 17%)Algeria18 kt (est. 10%)United States18 kt (est. 10%)Nigeria10 kt (est. 6%)Norway8.5 kt (est. 5%)Kuwait: no crude data37 kt (21%)South Korea: no crude data11 kt (6%)Smaller flows: crude not from imports0.9 kt (<1%)Portugal (own refineries)129 kt (73%)Kuwait37 kt (21%)South Korea11 kt (6%)Portugal: jet fuel supply177 kt (100%)
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Crude origin (estimate)
- Colour = where it went:
- Portugal (own refineries)
- Kuwait
- South Korea
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portugal (own refineries) | Portugal: jet fuel supply | 128,740 | 72.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output) |
| Kuwait | Portugal: jet fuel supply | 36,944 | 20.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| South Korea | Portugal: jet fuel supply | 11,150 | 6.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis) |
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Portugal (own refineries) | 44,764 | 34.8% | EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Kuwait: no crude data | Kuwait | 36,944 | 100.0% | UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on. |
| Azerbaijan | Portugal (own refineries) | 29,208 | 22.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Algeria | Portugal (own refineries) | 17,672 | 13.7% | EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| United States | Portugal (own refineries) | 17,529 | 13.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| South Korea: no crude data | South Korea | 11,150 | 100.0% | UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on. |
| Nigeria | Portugal (own refineries) | 10,148 | 7.9% | EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Norway | Portugal (own refineries) | 8,513 | 6.6% | EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2024-06 to 2024-08. Confidence: medium. |
| Smaller flows: crude not from imports | Portugal (own refineries) | 907 | 0.7% | 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. |
Source & method
Source Period 2024-08 (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
- 2024-08 (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: Portugal’s supply of jet fuel 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
- Kuwait: no crude data (36,944 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
- South Korea: no crude data (11,150 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
- Smaller flows: crude not from imports (907 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.