Supplier to the EU
Kuwait
In June 2026, no EU member state reported importing crude oil from Kuwait.
In June 2026, Kuwait supplied 31 kt of refined products to EU countries (0.2% of EU imports of the seven refined-product families we track), to Romania, Malta and Belgium.
Crude oil to EU countries
OfficialIn June 2026, no EU member state reported importing crude oil from Kuwait.
Earlier months: last reported in December 2024
| Month | Volume to EU | By EU country |
|---|---|---|
| December 2024 | 59 kt | Belgium 59 kt |
| November 2024 | 65 kt | Belgium 65 kt |
| April 2024 | 0.2 kt | Belgium 0.2 kt |
| March 2024 | 0.2 kt | Belgium 0.2 kt |
| December 2023 | 49 kt | Belgium 49 kt |
| November 2023 | 24 kt | Belgium 24 kt |
| October 2023 | 6.2 kt | Belgium 6.2 kt |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- Period
- Monthly, August 2023 to December 2024; 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
CalculatedThe largest was road diesel (31 kt).
Thousand tonnes a month, by product.
- Road diesel
- Jet fuel
- Fuel oil
- Heating and other gasoil
- Naphtha
| Product | Volume to EU | Share of EU imports of it |
|---|---|---|
| Road diesel | 31 kt | 0.5% |
| Fuel oil | not reported | not reported |
| Heating and other gasoil | not reported | not reported |
| Jet fuel | not reported | not reported |
| LPG | not reported | not reported |
| Petrol | not reported | not reported |
| Naphtha | not reported | not reported |
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 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.
Kuwait's crude inside EU fuel
EstimatedIn June 2026, our estimate traces none of Kuwait's crude into the road diesel of any of the 25 EU countries it covers. This is an estimate, not a reported figure.
Share: the estimated share of the crude behind each EU country’s fuel that came from Kuwait. All bars share one scale. Untraceable: the share of that country’s fuel whose crude cannot be traced to any origin.
Road diesel
Our estimate traces no crude from Kuwait into this fuel in any of the 25 EU countries it covers.
Petrol
Our estimate traces no crude from Kuwait into this fuel in any of the 26 EU countries it covers.
Jet fuel
Our estimate traces no crude from Kuwait into this fuel in any of the 25 EU countries it covers.
Source & method
- Source
- Not publishedEvery source, with links and licences
- Period
- June 2026
- Method
- How this figure is made
- Confidence
- Not established.
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 Kuwait's crude and products is inside the Persian Gulf: all of it must pass the Strait of Hormuz.
Export points held for Kuwait (3)
| Export point | Water body | Carries | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Zour | Persian Gulf | products | Inside the Gulf: must pass Hormuz |
| Mina Abdullah | Persian Gulf | products | Inside the Gulf: must pass Hormuz |
| Mina al-Ahmadi | Persian Gulf | crude and products | Inside the Gulf: must pass Hormuz |
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 oil: All export terminals sit inside the Persian Gulf. EIA states only Saudi Arabia and the UAE have operating pipelines that can circumvent the Strait of Hormuz, and the IEA lists this country among the producers that would lose access to their primary shipping route if the strait were disrupted. Cited: iea.org, eia.gov. Method version 1.0.
Refined products: Every export point cited as loading refined products lies inside the Persian Gulf: Mina al-Ahmadi; Mina Abdullah; Al-Zour. The country has no coastline outside the Gulf, so a product cargo loaded there must transit the Strait of Hormuz. Deterministic, s = 1. The crude bound for this country is NOT carried over: docs/HORMUZ_METHOD.md D2 states that a product's origin is where it was refined and loaded, which is a different set of terminals from the crude ones. This row is derived from product export points only; it agrees with the crude row because the geography, not the commodity, decides it. Cited: eia.gov, eia.gov, iea.org, knpc.com. Method version 1.0.
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.