Supplier to the EU
Democratic Republic of the Congo
In June 2026, the Democratic Republic of the Congo supplied 232 kt of crude oil to EU countries (0.6% of EU crude imports), to France and Belgium.
In June 2026, no EU member state reported importing refined products from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Crude oil to EU countries
CalculatedThousand tonnes a month, by the EU country that reported the import.
- France
- Belgium
- Croatia
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- Monthly, August 2023 to June 2026; latest month every EU member state has reported: June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
- Download
- Download CSV
- Dataset code
- nrg_ti_oilmLicence: Commission Decision 2011/833/EU - reuse authorised with attribution
- Updated
- 24 September 2026
- Confidence
- Official: reported by the statistical authority.
Basis: energy statistics. All volumes are on the energy basis: the country where the oil was produced, as each EU member state reports its imports to Eurostat (dataset nrg_ti_oilm). "EU imports" is the sum of what the member states reported importing from everywhere, including from each other and the part they did not attribute to any country.
July 2026 is not used yet: only 7 of 27 member states have reported their crude oil imports for it.
- Volumes are what EU member states reported importing, by the country where the oil was produced (Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm, energy basis). They are not the partner's own export statistics, and a member state that did not list the partner has not reported a zero.
- "EU imports" is the sum of the 27 member states' reported imports, including imports from each other; it is not the EU's external trade.
Refined products to EU countries
OfficialIn June 2026, no EU member state reported importing refined products from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- latest month every EU member state has reported: June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
- Download
- Download CSV
- Dataset code
- nrg_ti_oilmLicence: Commission Decision 2011/833/EU - reuse authorised with attribution
- Updated
- 24 September 2026
- Confidence
- Official: reported by the statistical authority.
Basis: energy statistics. All volumes are on the energy basis: the country where the oil was produced, as each EU member state reports its imports to Eurostat (dataset nrg_ti_oilm). "EU imports" is the sum of what the member states reported importing from everywhere, including from each other and the part they did not attribute to any country.
July 2026 is not used yet: only 7 of 27 member states have reported their refined product imports for it.
Seven product families are tracked; bitumen, lubricants and other products are not loaded.
- Volumes are what EU member states reported importing, by the country where the oil was produced (Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm, energy basis). They are not the partner's own export statistics, and a member state that did not list the partner has not reported a zero.
- "EU imports" is the sum of the 27 member states' reported imports, including imports from each other; it is not the EU's external trade.
- Refined products cover seven families (LPG, naphtha, petrol, jet fuel, road diesel, heating and other gasoil, fuel oil). Other products such as bitumen and lubricants are not loaded.
Democratic Republic of the Congo's crude inside EU fuel
EstimatedBy our estimate, crude from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is most present in the road diesel of Luxembourg (4%), Belgium (3%) and Ireland (1%), as a share of the crude behind each country's road diesel in June 2026. This is an estimate built from trade and refinery statistics, not a reported figure.
Share: the estimated share of the crude behind each EU country’s fuel that came from Democratic Republic of the Congo. All bars share one scale. Untraceable: the share of that country’s fuel whose crude cannot be traced to any origin.
Road diesel
| EU country | Share, as a bar | Share | Untraceable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxembourg | 4% | 2% | |
| Belgium | 3% | 7% | |
| Ireland | 1% | 37% | |
| Netherlands | 1% | 9% | |
| France | 1% | 34% | |
| Spain | <1% | 41% | |
| Germany | <1% | 7% | |
| Poland | <1% | 15% |
Petrol
| EU country | Share, as a bar | Share | Untraceable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxembourg | 4% | 2% | |
| Belgium | 3% | 9% | |
| France | 1% | 7% | |
| Netherlands | <1% | 20% | |
| Germany | <1% | 3% | |
| Portugal | <1% | 2% | |
| Spain | <1% | <1% |
Jet fuel
| EU country | Share, as a bar | Share | Untraceable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luxembourg | 4% | 2% | |
| Belgium | 2% | 16% | |
| France | 1% | 61% | |
| Romania | <1% | 30% | |
| Germany | <1% | 5% | |
| Netherlands | <1% | 37% | |
| Austria | <1% | 4% | |
| Spain | <1% | 84% |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country, monthly data (refined products)
- Period
- June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
- Dataset code
- nrg_ti_oilmLicence: Commission Decision 2011/833/EU - reuse authorised provided the source is acknowledged
- Updated
- 25 September 2026
- Confidence
- Medium.
Estimated with the fuel-chain look-through: exports are assumed to leave in proportion to supply, and each country’s refineries are assumed to run on its crude-import mix. Method version 1.4. Calculation lookthrough_v1 (1.4).
No CSV for this section: it is our estimate, served by the API with its method.
- "Inside EU fuel" is an estimate (one-level look-through, docs/HORMUZ_METHOD.md section 8), not a reported figure.
Strait of Hormuz route
OfficialEvery cited export point for the Democratic Republic of the Congo's crude and products is outside the Persian Gulf: none needs the Strait of Hormuz.
Export points held for Democratic Republic of the Congo (1)
| Export point | Water body | Carries | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offshore Muanda loading, Kongo Central (Perenco / Muanda International Oil Company) | Atlantic Ocean | crude | Outside the Gulf: no Hormuz transit |
Source & method
- Source
- EIA, IEA and terminal operators (cited per row) — Fuel Origin Hormuz route classification and country bounds, methodology v1.0 (data/reference/hormuz_route_classification_v1.csv, hormuz_country_summary_v1.csv)
- Method
- How this figure is made
- Dataset code
- hormuz_v1Licence: Per-row: each row names the public page establishing the geography.
- Updated
- 23 September 2026
- Confidence
- High. Where a country loads on both sides of the Strait, the split is not published, so only a range is given.
Crude and products: All cited export points lie outside the Persian Gulf: offshore loading off Muanda in Kongo Central, which the US Department of Commerce places in the Atlantic Ocean. The Strait of Hormuz is the sole outlet of the Persian Gulf, so the Hormuz-requiring share is 0 by geographic construction, not by estimate. No NAMED terminal is recorded: the commonly cited 'Moanda Oil Terminal' appears only on commercial shipping directories outside the source hierarchy. EIA has no DRC country analysis brief at all. Production is 19,500-25,000 b/d depending on the source and all of it is exported. Cited: trade.gov, perenco.com. Method version 1.0.
- Offshore Muanda loading, Kongo Central (Perenco / Muanda International Oil Company): trade.gov, perenco.com
No CSV for this section: the route classes are cited reference data.
- The Hormuz route describes where the partner loads oil, from cited reference data. Where it loads both inside and outside the Persian Gulf, the split is unknown and only a range is given.