Fuel Origin

Supplier to the EU

Sierra Leone

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

In June 2026, no EU member state reported importing refined products from Sierra Leone.

Crude oil to EU countries

Official

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

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

Official

In June 2026, no EU member state reported importing refined products from Sierra Leone.

Earlier months: last reported in December 2025
Months in which EU member states reported importing refined products (seven families) from this country. A month that is not listed had no report; it is not a zero.
MonthVolume to EUBy product
December 20257.4 ktJet fuel 7.4 kt
November 20259.8 ktJet fuel 9.8 kt
October 202513 ktJet fuel 13 kt
September 202512 ktJet fuel 12 kt
August 20259.6 ktJet fuel 9.6 kt
July 202516 ktJet fuel 16 kt
June 202511 ktJet fuel 11 kt
May 202514 ktJet fuel 14 kt
April 202515 ktJet fuel 15 kt
March 202516 ktJet fuel 16 kt
February 202516 ktJet fuel 16 kt
January 202513 ktJet fuel 13 kt
December 202415 ktJet fuel 15 kt
November 202413 ktJet fuel 13 kt
October 202417 ktJet fuel 17 kt
September 202412 ktJet fuel 12 kt
August 202414 ktJet fuel 14 kt
July 202416 ktJet fuel 16 kt
June 202418 ktJet fuel 18 kt
May 202412 ktJet fuel 12 kt
April 202417 ktJet fuel 17 kt
March 202415 ktJet fuel 15 kt
February 202413 ktJet fuel 13 kt
January 20246.8 ktJet fuel 6.8 kt
December 20233.5 ktJet fuel 2.4 kt, Road diesel 1.1 kt
November 20236.2 ktJet fuel 5.1 kt, Road diesel 1.1 kt
October 20236.9 ktJet fuel 6.9 kt
September 20236.8 ktJet fuel 6.8 kt
August 20234.7 ktJet fuel 4.7 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 December 2025; 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
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.

Sierra Leone's crude inside EU fuel

Estimated

In June 2026, our estimate traces none of Sierra Leone'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 Sierra Leone. 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 Sierra Leone into this fuel in any of the 25 EU countries it covers.

Petrol

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

Jet fuel

Our estimate traces no crude from Sierra Leone 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

Calculated

Crude oil

Share through Hormuz: Up to 100% · Not known

Where Sierra Leone's crude oil is loaded is not established from a cited source, so the share that passes through the Strait of Hormuz is only known as a range, up to 100%. We give no midpoint.

Refined products

Share through Hormuz: Up to 100% · Not known

Where Sierra Leone's refined products are loaded is not established from a cited source, so the share that passes through the Strait of Hormuz is only known as a range, up to 100%. We give no midpoint.

We hold no cited export point for Sierra Leone, so where its oil is loaded is not known.
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
Medium. Where a country loads on both sides of the Strait, the split is not published, so only a range is given.

Crude and products: UNKNOWN [0, 1], and the evidence now points at an artefact rather than a loading point. Tier-3/4 reporting describes the Kissy facility in Freetown as a petroleum IMPORT and storage jetty, rebuilt in the 2020s - not a refinery - and Sierra Leone's Petroleum Directorate presents the country as being at the exploration stage. A page opened under the same 'Kissy' name (kissyindustry.com) turned out to be a PALM-OIL producer, 'Sierra Leone's first indigenous company to transform locally grown palm oil into high-quality vegetable oil', and was discarded rather than mistaken for a petroleum terminal. If Sierra Leone has no refinery and only an import jetty, then the 0.5 Mt of EU product imports recorded against SL since 2015 - and the 13 kt of German imports in 2025-01 - are a flag-of-convenience or transhipment artefact, exactly as Liberia's crude volumes were found to be in the section 2b pass, and the physical origin is NOT determinable from the partner code. That reasoning is MEDIUM confidence on Tier-3/4 sources, which is not enough to assert 0 and not enough to assert 1, so the bound stays the uninformative [0, 1] and the volume stays inside unknown_share. Cited: sierraloaded.sl, pd.gov.sl, kissyindustry.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.