France
Road diesel, June 2026 — crude behind it: 15% United States · 12% Kazakhstan · 7% Norway · 34% cannot be traced. Up to 35% of that crude may have passed through the Strait of Hormuz.
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- EIA, IEA and terminal operators (cited per row) — Fuel Origin Hormuz route classification and country bounds, methodology v1.0
- Period
- June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
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France: road diesel available in June 2026
Everything refined in the country plus everything imported.
- 2
Where that fuel came from
France's refineries ran on (going by its crude imports, April–June 2026)
United States: crude origin not published.
Saudi Arabia: crude origin not published.
- 3
The crude behind France's road diesel
Assumptions
- Exports are assumed to be drawn from every source in proportion to its share of supply.
- Each country's refineries are assumed to run on its crude-import mix over the latest three months.
- The chain looks back one country only; fuel re-exported through a supplier is not followed further.
- The crude origin is the producing country the statistics report, not the loading terminal, so the Hormuz answer is a range wherever a producer loads both inside and outside the Persian Gulf.
In June 2026, most road diesel available in France was refined in France (51%), followed by the United States (19%).
France's refineries ran on crude from the United States (22%), Kazakhstan (20%) and Nigeria (10%), going by its crude imports in April–June 2026.
Taken together, an estimated 15% of the crude behind France's road diesel came from the United States, 12% from Kazakhstan and 7% from Norway; 34% cannot be traced.
The largest untraced part (19%) is there because we hold no crude import statistics for the United States.
Up to 35% of the crude behind France's road diesel is estimated to have passed through the Strait of Hormuz, a significant dependence judged on the upper bound. No midpoint is published: crude that cannot be traced is counted as anything from none to all of it.
This is an estimate, not a reported figure: it assumes exports are drawn proportionally from every source and that each country's refineries run on its crude-import mix, and it looks back only one country.
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Crude origins
Calculated7 refineries · 51.4 Mt/a where comparable.
In June 2026, 12 countries supplied crude imports; the largest three accounted for 54%.
Share of crude imports by origin, to June 2026
- United States
- Kazakhstan
- Nigeria
- Algeria
- Libya
- Norway
- Other origins
- Origin not published
Share of crude imports, June 2026
Since January 2023: United States +10.3 pt, Saudi Arabia −6.7 pt.
Share of crude imports, June 2026: all origins
| Country of origin | Share | Tonnes |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 25% | 720,000 |
| Libya | 15% | 428,000 |
| Kazakhstan | 15% | 418,000 |
| Nigeria | 9% | 271,000 |
| United Kingdom | 8% | 236,000 |
| Canada | 6% | 186,000 |
| Other origins | 22% |
All 7 refineries
- North Atlantic Energies Raffinerie de Gravenchon, 12 Mt/a
- TotalEnergies Plateforme Normandie (Gonfreville-l'Orcher), 12 Mt/a
- TotalEnergies Plateforme de Donges, 11 Mt/a
- Petroineos Lavera Refinery (Petroineos Manufacturing France SAS), 10 Mt/a
- TotalEnergies Plateforme de Feyzin, 5.6 Mt/a
- SARA Raffinerie des Antilles, 0.8 Mt/a
- Rhone Energies Raffinerie de Fos-sur-Mer, 140,000 bpd
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Refinery operators and national regulators (cited per row) — Fuel Origin curated refinery reference list
- Period
- June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
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Product origins
CalculatedRoad diesel imports, June 2026: United States 40%, Saudi Arabia 20%, Netherlands 14%, Germany 10%, Belgium 5%, Spain 5%, other origins 6%.
Share of road diesel imports by origin, to June 2026
- Saudi Arabia
- United States
- Netherlands
- Spain
- Belgium
- Germany
- Other origins
- Origin not published
Share of road diesel imports, June 2026
Share of road diesel imports, June 2026: all origins
| Country of origin | Share | Tonnes |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 40% | 431,000 |
| Saudi Arabia | 20% | 212,000 |
| Netherlands | 14% | 157,000 |
| Germany | 10% | 112,000 |
| Belgium | 5% | 59,000 |
| Spain | 5% | 53,000 |
| Other origins | 6% |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
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Stocks & days of cover
Official88 days of emergency stock cover in June 2026.
Closing stocks: 19,770,000 tonnes, −2.5% against the 12-month average.
Closing stocks, to June 2026
- Closing stocks
- 12-month average
Days of cover, to June 2026
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Emergency oil stocks in days equivalent - monthly data
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Stock levels for oil products - monthly data
- Period
- June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
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Which method the member state used
- Stock calculation method: method 2
- Minimum obligation method: method 1
- Days calculation method: method 1
Recent events
Official- 28 Feb 2026Strait of Hormuz shipping disruption (2026)Shipping disruption · Strait of Hormuz / Persian Gulf
- 5 Feb 2023EU import ban on Russian refined petroleum products (in force 5 February 2023)Import ban · European Union
- 5 Dec 2022EU import ban on seaborne Russian crude oil (in force 5 December 2022)Import ban · European Union
- 24 Feb 2022Russian invasion of Ukraine (24 February 2022)War · Ukraine
Source & method
- Source
- International Energy Agency — Event timeline, cited per event
- US Energy Information Administration — Event timeline, cited per event
- European Commission — Event timeline, cited per event
- European Council — Event timeline, cited per event
- National legislators — Event timeline, cited per event
- Method
- How this figure is made