Fuel Origin

Supplier to the EU

In June 2026, no EU member state reported importing crude oil from Malta.

In June 2026, Malta supplied 75 kt of refined products to EU countries (0.4% of EU imports of the seven refined-product families we track), all of it to Greece.

Crude oil to EU countries

Official

In June 2026, no EU member state reported importing crude oil from Malta.

Source & method
Source
Not publishedEvery source, with links and licences
Period
latest month every EU member state has reported: June 2026
Method
How this figure is made
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Confidence
Not established.

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

Calculated

The largest was fuel oil (75 kt).

Thousand tonnes a month, by product.

Jan 2025Jun 2026055110165220
  • Fuel oil
  • Road diesel
  • Heating and other gasoil
  • Petrol
  • Jet fuel
By product, June 2026. "Not reported" means no EU member state listed this country for that product; it is not zero.
ProductVolume to EUShare of EU imports of it
Fuel oil75 kt2.2%
Road dieselnot reportednot reported
Heating and other gasoilnot reportednot reported
Jet fuelnot reportednot reported
LPGnot reportednot reported
Petrolnot reportednot reported
Naphthanot reportednot reported
By EU destination, June 2026
By EU destination, June 2026, as each destination country reported it.
EU countryVolume
Greece75 kt
Source & method
Source
  • Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
Every source, with links and licences
Period
Monthly, August 2023 to June 2026; latest month every EU member state has reported: June 2026
Method
How this figure is made
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Dataset code
nrg_ti_oilmLicence: Commission Decision 2011/833/EU - reuse authorised with attribution
Updated
26 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.

Malta's crude inside EU fuel

Estimated

In June 2026, our estimate traces none of Malta's crude into the road diesel of any of the 26 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 Malta. 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 Malta into this fuel in any of the 26 EU countries it covers.

Petrol

Our estimate traces no crude from Malta into this fuel in any of the 26 EU countries it covers.

Jet fuel

Our estimate traces no crude from Malta into this fuel in any of the 26 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 1.5. Calculation lookthrough_v1 (1.5).

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

Official

Every cited export point for Malta's crude and products is outside the Persian Gulf: none needs the Strait of Hormuz.

Export points held for Malta (1)
Export pointWater bodyCarriesRoute
Malta Freeport oil terminalMediterranean Seacrude and productsOutside 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)
Every source, with links and licences
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
Low. 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: the Malta Freeport oil terminal, with Malta placed by the USGS in the centre of the Mediterranean Sea. 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. Malta has no mineral fuel production of economic significance; the USGS describes an economy depending almost completely on imports, the re-export of raw materials and fuels, and the storage of crude petroleum. STALE: the USGS yearbook carries 2012 data published in 2015, and every current Maltese government source refused the fetch. CONSIGNMENT-basis caveat: on a customs (consignment) basis this partner may carry crude of other physical origin. It is still recorded as 0 because the ORIGIN-basis series (Eurostat nrg_ti_oilm) attributes such re-exports to the producing country, and on that basis this partner appears only as a producer. See data/reference/REFERENCE_DATA_SOURCES.md section 'v1 extension 2026-09-22'. Cited: d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.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.