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 September 2024, all 27 EU member states reported importing 38,127 kt of crude oil; the largest origins outside the EU were Norway (16%), the United States (14%) and Kazakhstan (12%), and 1% came from other EU member states, with 8% not attributed to any country.
Countries shownAll countriesTop 5 originsTop 5 destinations
Month
Norway6.09 Mt (15%)United States5.39 Mt (14%)Kazakhstan4.46 Mt (12%)Saudi Arabia2.64 Mt (7%)Iraq2.28 Mt (6%)Nigeria2.24 Mt (6%)Brazil1.92 Mt (5%)United Kingdom1.63 Mt (4%)Libya1.54 Mt (4%)Azerbaijan1.53 Mt (4%)Russia1.03 Mt (3%)Algeria782 kt (2%)Other origins outside the EU3.52 Mt (9%)Other EU member states192 kt (<1%)Origin not reported2.88 Mt (8%)Germany6.47 Mt (17%)Spain4.67 Mt (13%)Italy4.36 Mt (12%)Netherlands3.91 Mt (11%)France3.71 Mt (10%)Poland2.48 Mt (7%)Belgium2.41 Mt (6%)Greece2.25 Mt (6%)Sweden1.27 Mt (3%)Finland942 kt (est. 3%)Portugal843 kt (2%)Romania724 kt (2%)Lithuania687 kt (2%)Austria621 kt (2%)Slovakia533 kt (1%)Bulgaria504 kt (1%)Czechia485 kt (1%)Hungary398 kt (1%)Denmark382 kt (1%)Croatia239 kt (<1%)Ireland226 kt (<1%)
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Where the oil was produced
- Norway6.09 Mt (15%)
- United States5.39 Mt (14%)
- Kazakhstan4.46 Mt (12%)
- Saudi Arabia2.64 Mt (7%)
- Iraq2.28 Mt (6%)
- Nigeria2.24 Mt (6%)
- Brazil1.92 Mt (5%)
- United Kingdom1.63 Mt (4%)
- Libya1.54 Mt (4%)
- Azerbaijan1.53 Mt (4%)
- Russia1.03 Mt (3%)
- Algeria782 kt (2%)
- Other origins outside the EU3.52 Mt (9%)
- Other EU member states192 kt (<1%)
- Origin not reported2.88 Mt (8%)
- Reported (solid)
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
- Dashed: estimated from published euro value
Total crude oil imports reported (Sep 2024)
2.48 million tonnes
7% of reported EU crude oil imports
Official
Top origin countries
- Saudi Arabia1.24 Mt (50%)
- Norway536 kt (22%)
- Origin not reported391 kt (16%)
and 2 more in the table above
Source: Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis)
- Reported; colour = country of production
- Summed by us (dotted)
- Origin not reported (hatched)
- Dashed: estimated from published euro value
The numbers as a table
| From | To | Tonnes | Share | How we know |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other origins outside the EU | Spain | 1,620,930 | 34.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Norway | Germany | 1,346,133 | 20.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Poland | 1,243,294 | 50.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Germany | 1,138,966 | 17.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Sweden | 1,091,483 | 86.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | France | 954,000 | 25.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kazakhstan | Germany | 866,626 | 13.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Netherlands | 765,005 | 19.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Spain | 759,929 | 16.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Brazil | Spain | 684,945 | 14.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kazakhstan | Greece | 679,965 | 30.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Italy | 666,849 | 15.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Libya | Italy | 622,435 | 14.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Netherlands | 621,945 | 15.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Iraq | Greece | 610,801 | 27.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kazakhstan | Netherlands | 603,886 | 15.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Azerbaijan | Italy | 603,118 | 13.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Germany | 586,784 | 9.1% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| United Kingdom | Germany | 584,681 | 9.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Germany | 572,920 | 8.8% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Kazakhstan | Italy | 560,987 | 12.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Brazil | Portugal | 543,836 | 64.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Nigeria | France | 543,000 | 14.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Poland | 536,038 | 21.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Belgium | 521,000 | 21.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Bulgaria | 503,546 | 100.0% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Nigeria | Italy | 501,195 | 11.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Libya | Germany | 500,584 | 7.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | France | 499,000 | 13.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Slovakia | 479,713 | 90.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Netherlands | 450,740 | 11.5% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Iraq | Netherlands | 444,026 | 11.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kazakhstan | Austria | 406,999 | 65.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Italy | 401,036 | 9.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Brazil | France | 401,000 | 10.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Nigeria | Spain | 400,614 | 8.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Poland | 391,230 | 15.8% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other origins outside the EU | Belgium | 390,200 | 16.2% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Norway | Finland | 387,214 | 41.1% | Estimatedestimated from published euro value: €202,666,526 published for 2024-09, at €523 per tonne (price other EU countries paid for this supplier's crude that month). Tonnes = published customs value (EUR) / unit value (EUR per tonne); the unit value is what other EU countries paid for the same supplier's crude that month (else in the neighbouring months, else for all suppliers). Used only where the official figure is not published. |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands | 369,700 | 9.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Russia | Hungary | 367,000 | 92.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kazakhstan | Romania | 361,000 | 49.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Nigeria | Germany | 346,908 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Belgium | 345,500 | 14.3% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Iraq | France | 345,000 | 9.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Iraq | Italy | 338,188 | 7.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Belgium | 323,500 | 13.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kazakhstan | Spain | 312,411 | 6.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Iraq | Germany | 309,704 | 4.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kazakhstan | Belgium | 305,900 | 12.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Lithuania | 297,300 | 43.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Libya | Greece | 296,653 | 13.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Greece | 293,636 | 13.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Denmark | 274,000 | 71.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Spain | 273,577 | 5.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Kazakhstan | France | 273,000 | 7.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | France | 264,000 | 7.1% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Saudi Arabia | Italy | 248,123 | 5.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Greece | 238,389 | 10.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Italy | 232,893 | 5.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Finland | 221,104 | 23.5% | Estimatedestimated from published euro value: €122,957,763 published for 2024-09, at €556 per tonne (price other EU countries paid for this supplier's crude that month). Tonnes = published customs value (EUR) / unit value (EUR per tonne); the unit value is what other EU countries paid for the same supplier's crude that month (else in the neighbouring months, else for all suppliers). Used only where the official figure is not published. |
| Azerbaijan | Czechia | 210,000 | 43.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Portugal | 208,666 | 24.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Lithuania | 204,800 | 29.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | France | 198,000 | 5.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Belgium | 191,900 | 8.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Netherlands | 188,910 | 4.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Lithuania | 184,400 | 26.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Poland | 182,383 | 7.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Netherlands | 181,587 | 4.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Russia | Czechia | 181,000 | 37.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Azerbaijan | Romania | 180,000 | 24.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Azerbaijan | Croatia | 168,663 | 70.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Brazil | Netherlands | 168,057 | 4.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Spain | 165,321 | 3.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Italy | 162,320 | 3.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Spain | 144,509 | 3.1% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Iraq | Spain | 142,146 | 3.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Ireland | 137,631 | 60.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Sweden | 135,769 | 10.7% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Other origins outside the EU | Finland | 131,150 | 13.9% | Estimatedestimated from published euro value: €68,161,421 published for 2024-09, at €520 per tonne (price other EU countries paid for this supplier's crude that month). Tonnes = published customs value (EUR) / unit value (EUR per tonne); the unit value is what other EU countries paid for the same supplier's crude that month (else in the neighbouring months, else for all suppliers). Used only where the official figure is not published. |
| Nigeria | Belgium | 129,200 | 5.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Nigeria | Poland | 122,764 | 5.0% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Nigeria | Netherlands | 120,963 | 3.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Brazil | Belgium | 117,100 | 4.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Denmark | 108,000 | 28.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Austria | 107,860 | 17.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Norway | Romania | 103,000 | 14.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Finland | 101,295 | 10.8% | Estimatedestimated from published euro value: €53,406,063 published for 2024-09, at €527 per tonne (price other EU countries paid for this supplier's crude that month). Tonnes = published customs value (EUR) / unit value (EUR per tonne); the unit value is what other EU countries paid for the same supplier's crude that month (else in the neighbouring months, else for all suppliers). Used only where the official figure is not published. |
| Other EU member states | Finland | 101,208 | 10.7% | Estimatedestimated from published euro value: €58,277,704 published for 2024-09, at €576 per tonne (price other EU countries paid for this supplier's crude that month). Tonnes = published customs value (EUR) / unit value (EUR per tonne); the unit value is what other EU countries paid for the same supplier's crude that month (else in the neighbouring months, else for all suppliers). Used only where the official figure is not published. |
| Kazakhstan | Czechia | 94,000 | 19.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Portugal | 90,160 | 10.7% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Azerbaijan | Ireland | 88,275 | 39.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Iraq | Belgium | 86,100 | 3.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Azerbaijan | Spain | 84,140 | 1.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Azerbaijan | Germany | 83,754 | 1.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Azerbaijan | France | 82,000 | 2.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Libya | France | 82,000 | 2.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | Romania | 80,000 | 11.0% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Saudi Arabia | Germany | 79,254 | 1.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Origin not reported | Greece | 74,658 | 3.3% | Summed by usPublisher's import total minus the named partners. |
| Nigeria | Croatia | 70,364 | 29.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other origins outside the EU | France | 70,000 | 1.9% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other origins outside the EU | Greece | 60,655 | 2.7% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Norway | Spain | 53,016 | 1.1% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Saudi Arabia | Slovakia | 52,913 | 9.9% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Sweden | 42,078 | 3.3% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Libya | Austria | 41,953 | 6.8% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Azerbaijan | Austria | 34,247 | 5.5% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Other EU member states | Hungary | 31,000 | 7.8% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Germany | 30,443 | 0.5% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Other EU member states | Spain | 28,856 | 0.6% | Summed by usSum of the published imports from the smaller origins. |
| Algeria | Germany | 27,291 | 0.4% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United Kingdom | Italy | 26,598 | 0.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| Algeria | Austria | 20,032 | 3.2% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
| United States | Austria | 10,054 | 1.6% | ReportedEurostat nrg_ti_oilm (imports by country of origin, energy basis) |
2 flows with a share under 0.1% are not listed here. They are still counted in every total and drawn in the diagram, and the CSV under Source & method lists every flow.
Source & method
Source Period 2024-09 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:21 UTCConfidenceMediumMethodologyDownload CSV
Eurostat (European Commission)Inferred · medium
Provenance
Inferred · mediumMedium- Publisher
- Eurostat (European Commission)
- Dataset id
- Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly datanrg_ti_oilmeurostat_nrg_ti_oilm
- Period
- 2024-09 (month)
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23 07:29 UTC
- Type
- Inferred · medium
- Transformation
- none applied - stored exactly as published
- Licence
- Commission Decision 2011/833/EU - reuse authorised with attribution
- Tonnes are the figures each member state published (OFFICIAL); shares and the 'Other' and 'Origin not reported' sums are our arithmetic on them (CALCULATED).
- Energy basis: the country where the oil was produced.
- Dashed flows are estimated from the published euro value: the reporting country withholds the tonnes, and its official figure for the month is not published. Customs basis (country of consignment), INFERRED - not a published tonnage. Destinations: FI.
Left: where the crude oil was produced. Right: the EU member state that reported importing it in 2024-09, in tonnes. Every solid flow is a figure a member state published. In the Top 5 views the other side keeps its eight largest countries and sums the rest into one “Other” row (our arithmetic, dotted).
Dashed flows are estimated from the published euro value: the reporting country withholds the tonnes, and its official figure for the month is not published. Customs basis (country of consignment), INFERRED - not a published tonnage. Method
Month: 2024-09 (requested; 27 of 27 member states reported). Energy basis: the country where the oil was produced, as each EU member state reports it (Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm).
Not in the diagram: Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovenia. They reported no imports above zero from any named origin for this month (a reported zero, or origins the publisher withheld). That is not the same as importing nothing.
- Energy basis (Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm): the country where the oil was produced, as each EU member state reports it. The customs basis (country of consignment) is not mixed in.
- Imports from other EU member states are mostly re-exports of oil produced elsewhere; they are grouped separately so they are not read as production.
- A member state's imports the publisher did not attribute to a country are shown as 'Origin not reported', never spread over the named origins.