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 December 2025, Portugal's jet fuel supply was 159 kt: 83% from its own refineries, with imports mainly from the South Korea (14%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Brazil (25%), Algeria (17%) and Angola (12%), and 14% cannot be traced.

The numbers as a table
Reported: where Portugal's jet fuel came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Portugal (own refineries)Portugal: jet fuel supply131,12982.7%ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output)
South KoreaPortugal: jet fuel supply22,37914.1%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
NetherlandsPortugal: jet fuel supply5,0673.2%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)39,62930.2%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-10 to 2025-12. Confidence: medium.
AlgeriaPortugal (own refineries)27,42320.9%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-10 to 2025-12. Confidence: medium.
South Korea: no crude dataSouth Korea22,379100.0%UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
AngolaPortugal (own refineries)18,77014.3%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-10 to 2025-12. Confidence: medium.
GhanaPortugal (own refineries)18,45914.1%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-10 to 2025-12. Confidence: medium.
AzerbaijanPortugal (own refineries)13,73910.5%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-10 to 2025-12. Confidence: medium.
United StatesPortugal (own refineries)13,10910.0%EstimatedEstimate: Portugal's jet fuel to Portugal split by Portugal's crude-import mix over 2025-10 to 2025-12. Confidence: medium.
Other crude originsNetherlands2,28545.1%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's jet fuel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-10 to 2025-12. Confidence: medium.
United StatesNetherlands1,24324.5%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's jet fuel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-10 to 2025-12. Confidence: medium.
NorwayNetherlands90517.9%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's jet fuel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-10 to 2025-12. Confidence: medium.
BrazilNetherlands3396.7%EstimatedEstimate: Netherlands's jet fuel to Portugal split by Netherlands's crude-import mix over 2025-10 to 2025-12. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude origin not reportedNetherlands2955.8%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
Source & method
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2025-12 (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 2025-12, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.

Month: 2025-12 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2025-10 to 2025-12.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • South Korea: no crude data (22,379 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
  • Smaller flows: crude origin not reported (295 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.

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