Supplier to the EU
South Korea
In June 2026, no EU member state reported importing crude oil from the South Korea.
In June 2026, the South Korea supplied 98 kt of refined products to EU countries (0.5% of EU imports of the seven refined-product families we track), to France, Poland and the Netherlands.
Crude oil to EU countries
OfficialIn June 2026, no EU member state reported importing crude oil from the South Korea.
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
- Download
- Download CSV
- 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
CalculatedThe largest was jet fuel (98 kt).
Thousand tonnes a month, by product.
- Jet fuel
- LPG
- Naphtha
- Road diesel
- Petrol
- Heating and other gasoil
- Other products
| Product | Volume to EU | Share of EU imports of it |
|---|---|---|
| Jet fuel | 98 kt | 3.7% |
| LPG | 0.3 kt | <0.1% |
| Road diesel | not reported | not reported |
| Fuel oil | not reported | not reported |
| Heating and other gasoil | not reported | not reported |
| Petrol | not reported | not reported |
| Naphtha | not reported | not reported |
By EU destination, June 2026
| EU country | Volume |
|---|---|
| France | 98 kt |
| Poland | 0.2 kt |
| Netherlands | 0.1 kt |
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.
South Korea's crude inside EU fuel
EstimatedIn June 2026, our estimate traces none of the South Korea'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 South Korea. 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 South Korea into this fuel in any of the 25 EU countries it covers.
Petrol
Our estimate traces no crude from South Korea into this fuel in any of the 26 EU countries it covers.
Jet fuel
Our estimate traces no crude from South Korea 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 the South Korea's crude and products is outside the Persian Gulf: none needs the Strait of Hormuz.
Export points held for South Korea (4)
| Export point | Water body | Carries | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| GS Caltex Yeosu refinery export point | not recorded | products | Outside the Gulf: no Hormuz transit |
| HD Hyundai Oilbank Daesan refinery export point | Yellow Sea | products | Outside the Gulf: no Hormuz transit |
| S-Oil Onsan refinery export point, Ulsan | not recorded | products | Outside the Gulf: no Hormuz transit |
| SK Energy Ulsan refinery export point | East Sea | products | 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
- 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: SK Energy Ulsan (781), GS Caltex Yeosu (744), S-Oil at Onsan/Ulsan and HD Hyundai Oilbank Daesan (484 thousand b/d), within EIA's national total of 3,305 thousand b/d. S-Oil states it exports ULSD and ULSG to 'countries around the world including those in Asia, U.S., Europe, and Oceania', which is what makes Korea material to EU D2. 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. DISAGREEMENT retained: S-Oil's own '669,000 barrels/day' against EIA's two S-Oil Ulsan entries of 83 and 519 thousand b/d. Korean product refined from Gulf crude is D3, not D2. The correct EIA path is countries_long/South_Korea/; countries_long/Korea_South/ returns 404. Cited: eia.gov, s-oil.com, en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org. Method version 1.0.
- GS Caltex Yeosu refinery export point: eia.gov
- HD Hyundai Oilbank Daesan refinery export point: eia.gov, en.wikipedia.org
- S-Oil Onsan refinery export point, Ulsan: s-oil.com, eia.gov
- SK Energy Ulsan refinery export point: eia.gov, en.wikipedia.org
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.