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 March 2025, Portugal's jet fuel supply was 139 kt: 96% from its own refineries; tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Brazil (43%), Algeria (19%) and Azerbaijan (14%), and less than 1% 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 Portugal's jet fuel came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Portugal (own refineries)Portugal: jet fuel supply133,04295.6%ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output)
NetherlandsPortugal: jet fuel supply6,1154.4%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)59,02844.4%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
AlgeriaPortugal (own refineries)26,83020.2%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
AzerbaijanPortugal (own refineries)19,77214.9%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaPortugal (own refineries)6,4754.9%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
AngolaPortugal (own refineries)6,1734.6%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
GhanaPortugal (own refineries)6,0574.6%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
United StatesPortugal (own refineries)4,5003.4%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsPortugal (own refineries)4,2073.2%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsNetherlands3,60559.0%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's jet fuel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
United StatesNetherlands1,26420.7%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's jet fuel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude origin not reportedNetherlands3876.3%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
BrazilNetherlands3756.1%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's jet fuel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
NigeriaNetherlands3686.0%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's jet fuel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsNetherlands811.3%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.
AngolaNetherlands340.6%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's jet fuel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-01 to 2025-03. Confidence: medium.
Source & method
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2025-03 (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 jet fuel in 2025-03, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.

Month: 2025-03 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2025-01 to 2025-03.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Smaller flows: crude origin not reported (387 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
  • Smaller flows: crude not from imports (81 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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