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
OfficialIn 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
OfficialIn June 2026, no EU member state reported importing refined products from Sierra Leone.
Earlier months: last reported in December 2025
| Month | Volume to EU | By product |
|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 7.4 kt | Jet fuel 7.4 kt |
| November 2025 | 9.8 kt | Jet fuel 9.8 kt |
| October 2025 | 13 kt | Jet fuel 13 kt |
| September 2025 | 12 kt | Jet fuel 12 kt |
| August 2025 | 9.6 kt | Jet fuel 9.6 kt |
| July 2025 | 16 kt | Jet fuel 16 kt |
| June 2025 | 11 kt | Jet fuel 11 kt |
| May 2025 | 14 kt | Jet fuel 14 kt |
| April 2025 | 15 kt | Jet fuel 15 kt |
| March 2025 | 16 kt | Jet fuel 16 kt |
| February 2025 | 16 kt | Jet fuel 16 kt |
| January 2025 | 13 kt | Jet fuel 13 kt |
| December 2024 | 15 kt | Jet fuel 15 kt |
| November 2024 | 13 kt | Jet fuel 13 kt |
| October 2024 | 17 kt | Jet fuel 17 kt |
| September 2024 | 12 kt | Jet fuel 12 kt |
| August 2024 | 14 kt | Jet fuel 14 kt |
| July 2024 | 16 kt | Jet fuel 16 kt |
| June 2024 | 18 kt | Jet fuel 18 kt |
| May 2024 | 12 kt | Jet fuel 12 kt |
| April 2024 | 17 kt | Jet fuel 17 kt |
| March 2024 | 15 kt | Jet fuel 15 kt |
| February 2024 | 13 kt | Jet fuel 13 kt |
| January 2024 | 6.8 kt | Jet fuel 6.8 kt |
| December 2023 | 3.5 kt | Jet fuel 2.4 kt, Road diesel 1.1 kt |
| November 2023 | 6.2 kt | Jet fuel 5.1 kt, Road diesel 1.1 kt |
| October 2023 | 6.9 kt | Jet fuel 6.9 kt |
| September 2023 | 6.8 kt | Jet fuel 6.8 kt |
| August 2023 | 4.7 kt | Jet fuel 4.7 kt |
Source & method
- Source
- Eurostat (European Commission) — Imports of oil and petroleum products by partner country - monthly data
- 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
EstimatedIn 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
CalculatedCrude 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.
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
- 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.