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 October 2023, Romania's jet fuel supply was 37 kt: 86% from its own refineries, with imports from Türkiye (14%); tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Kazakhstan (31%), Libya (8%) and Norway (7%), and 47% 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 Romania's jet fuel came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Romania (own refineries)Romania: jet fuel supply32,00086.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output)
TürkiyeRomania: jet fuel supply5,00013.5%ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by partner country, energy basis)
Estimate: the crude oil behind each supplier's fuel
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
KazakhstanRomania (own refineries)11,65236.4%EstimatedEstimate: Romania's jet fuel to Romania split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium.
Romania: crude not from importsRomania (own refineries)9,30529.1%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.
Türkiye: no crude dataTürkiye5,000100.0%UnknownWe hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
Romania: crude origin not reportedRomania (own refineries)3,19210.0%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
LibyaRomania (own refineries)2,8518.9%EstimatedEstimate: Romania's jet fuel to Romania split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium.
NorwayRomania (own refineries)2,6408.3%EstimatedEstimate: Romania's jet fuel to Romania split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium.
AzerbaijanRomania (own refineries)1,3614.3%EstimatedEstimate: Romania's jet fuel to Romania split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium.
OmanRomania (own refineries)9973.1%EstimatedEstimate: Romania's jet fuel to Romania split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2023-08 to 2023-10. Confidence: medium.
Source & method
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2023-10 (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: Romania’s supply of jet fuel in 2023-10, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.

Month: 2023-10 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2023-08 to 2023-10.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Romania: crude not from imports (9,305 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.
  • Türkiye: no crude data (5,000 t): We hold no crude import statistics for the supplying country, and we do not assume what its refineries run on.
  • Romania: crude origin not reported (3,192 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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