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 November 2024, Romania's petrol supply was 296 kt: 97% from its own refineries; tracing one step back, the crude behind it is estimated to come mainly from Kazakhstan (39%), Azerbaijan (15%) and Norway (6%), and 31% 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 petrol came from
FromToTonnesShareHow we know
Romania (own refineries)Romania: petrol supply287,00097.0%ReportedEurostat nrg_cb_oilm (refinery output)
HungaryRomania: petrol supply9,0003.0%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)116,35440.5%EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Romania split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Romania: crude not from importsRomania (own refineries)64,18922.4%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.
AzerbaijanRomania (own refineries)45,13615.7%EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Romania split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Romania: crude origin not reportedRomania (own refineries)26,0839.1%UnknownThe supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
NorwayRomania (own refineries)19,0536.6%EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Romania split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
CanadaRomania (own refineries)8,8793.1%EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Romania split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
LibyaRomania (own refineries)7,3072.5%EstimatedEstimate: Romania's petrol to Romania split by Romania's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
RussiaHungary7,21980.2%EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Romania split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Smaller flows: crude not from importsHungary1,62118.0%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.
CroatiaHungary1611.8%EstimatedEstimate: Hungary's petrol to Romania split by Hungary's crude-import mix over 2024-09 to 2024-11. Confidence: medium.
Source & method
Source
EurostatInferred · medium
Period 2024-11 (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 petrol in 2024-11, in tonnes of fuel. Only the middle-to-right flows are reported figures.

Month: 2024-11 (requested). Crude mixes are pooled over 2024-09 to 2024-11.

Fuel that cannot be traced, and the reason

  • Romania: crude not from imports (64,189 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.
  • Romania: crude origin not reported (26,083 t): The supplying country's statistics did not say where part of its crude came from.
  • Smaller flows: crude not from imports (1,621 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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