Fuel Origin

ExxonMobil Rotterdam Refinery (Botlek)

Rotterdam-Botlek, Netherlands

ExxonMobil Rotterdam Refinery (Botlek) is an operating crude oil refinery in Rotterdam-Botlek, the Netherlands. It is operated by ExxonMobil. No capacity figure for ExxonMobil Rotterdam Refinery (Botlek) could be cited, so none is shown. This is not a capacity of zero.

Status
Operating
status source
Operator
ExxonMobil
Commissioned
1960
Capacity (as published)
not published
Refinery recordVerified
Last verified 2026-09-21Location 51.8754, 4.2949

Owners and operator

Who owns and runs the site, as the cited sources state it. A share that was not published is shown as not published, never as 0%.

NameRoleShareFromToType
ExxonMobilOperatornot publishednot publishedcurrentVerified
ExxonMobilOwnernot publishednot publishedcurrentVerified
Source
Refinery operators and national regulators (cited per row)Verified
Updated 2026-09-21 00:00 UTCConfidenceLowMethodologyno download for this view
No dated ownership change is recorded as structured data for this refinery. Earlier owners, where the sources name them, are described in the source notes at the foot of this page.

Ports and pipelines it is connected to

Infrastructure only. A connection means the berth or pipeline exists; it does not show that any crude or product was received through it.

ExxonMobil Rotterdam Refinery (Botlek) is connected to Rotterdam (port) and unnamed crude pipelines from the Maasvlakte/Europoort tank farms (pipeline). A connection means the berth or pipeline exists; it does not show that any crude or product was received through it. Verified

  • connected to Rotterdam (Port) Verified LowRotterdam (crude shipped in and stored at Maasvlakte and Europoort tank farms)Evidence: corporate.exxonmobil.com
  • connected to unnamed crude pipelines from the Maasvlakte/Europoort tank farms (Pipeline) Verified LowEvidence: corporate.exxonmobil.com
Source
Refinery operators and national regulators (cited per row)Verified
Updated 2026-09-21 00:00 UTCConfidenceLowMethodologyno download for this view

What it runs on

Which crude this refinery processes is not published. Netherlands's crude-import mix is shown as national context - it is not this refinery's intake.

This refinery's crude intake by origin: UNKNOWN

Which crude oil ExxonMobil Rotterdam Refinery (Botlek) runs on is not published, so it is UNKNOWN. Refinery-level crude intake by origin is not public in most of Europe, and we do not allocate a national figure across refineries.

Unknown

National · NetherlandsNational context — not this refinery's own figure

National context, not this refinery's intake: the Netherlands has 5 other crude oil refineries recorded, so the import mix describes the country as a whole. In June 2026, the Netherlands' crude imports came mainly from the United States of America (27%), Norway (15%) and Kazakhstan (9%).

Does the national figure describe this refinery?UnknownUnknownNo: the country has other crude refineries, and the national total is not divided between them.

Netherlands, June 2026 - latest month with an origin breakdown (PARTIAL)
Producing countryTonnesShareType
United States of America1,024,78027%Calculated
Norway567,44715%Calculated
Kazakhstan352,5109%Calculated
United Kingdom301,7878%Calculated
Brazil249,6527%Calculated
Libya134,9244%Calculated
Algeria106,5763%Calculated
Nigeria98,8903%Calculated
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)81,8362%Calculated
Niger79,8312%Calculated
Colombia77,6072%Calculated
Senegal73,9092%Calculated
Angola72,5462%Calculated
Mexico55,9781%Calculated
Congo54,4451%Calculated
Azerbaijan27,5091%Calculated
Italy14,025less than 1%Calculated
Belgium838less than 1%Calculated
Germany1less than 1%Calculated
Last 12 months held: share of Netherlands's crude imports by producing country
MonthUnited States of AmericaNorwayKazakhstanUnited KingdomBrazilAll other origins
2025-0715%17%17%9%8%26%
2025-0820%22%15%6%13%18%
2025-0925%22%12%9%8%18%
2025-1019%21%15%9%5%26%
2025-1127%12%19%8%5%20%
2025-1228%19%11%7%10%21%
2026-0122%27%3%8%6%28%
2026-0225%19%10%9%4%20%
2026-0320%21%8%11%5%31%
2026-0415%25%12%10%7%22%
2026-0538%11%8%5%10%18%
2026-0627%15%9%8%7%23%

"-" means the origin was not reported that month. A PARTIAL month does not add up to 100% because part of the volume was not attributed.

Source
Eurostat (European Commission)Calculated
Period 2026-06 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:21 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyno download for this view

Refinery output in Netherlands (national)

What all refineries in Netherlands produced together, as published. This refinery's own output is not published and the national total is not divided between refineries.

National · NetherlandsNational context — not this refinery's own figure

National figure, not this refinery's: The Netherlands' refineries together produced 4,922.829 thousand tonnes of oil products in June 2026. ExxonMobil Rotterdam Refinery (Botlek)'s own output is not published, and the national total is not divided between refineries. Official

June 2026, thousand tonnes as published
Motor gasoline375.356Official
Road diesel1,226.852Official
Heating and other gasoil179.988Official
Kerosene-type jet fuel673.415Official
Naphtha884.793Official
Fuel oil781.416Official
Liquefied petroleum gases97.818Official
Petroleum coke37.149Official
All oil products (total)4,922.829Official
Last 12 months, thousand tonnes
MonthTotalMotor gasolineRoad dieselKerosene-type jet fuel
2025-074,727.386306.7251,198.864587.669
2025-085,055.727291.5941,154.715580.489
2025-094,668.302347.4881,153.65482.52
2025-105,266.059201.0621,570.259532.995
2025-115,249.446230.281,376.299534.469
2025-125,445.096258.0961,616.377557.406
2026-015,092.898277.9841,330.82573.269
2026-024,561.892281.1261,327.201490.623
2026-035,261.947398.3421,417.949732.341
2026-044,917.97334.7881,258.161756.906
2026-055,212.002381.9481,292.067742.394
2026-064,922.829375.3561,226.852673.415
Source
Eurostat (European Commission)Official
Period 2026-06 (month)Updated 2026-09-23 10:15 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyno download for this view

Outages and maintenance

Planned and unplanned shutdowns we can cite. There is no public register for EU refineries, so an empty list is not a clean record.

No public outage register exists for EU refineries (docs/DATA_SOURCES.md §L).

No outage or maintenance is recorded for ExxonMobil Rotterdam Refinery (Botlek). No public outage register exists for EU refineries (docs/DATA_SOURCES.md §L). This is a missing record, not a statement that the refinery ran without interruption.

Source
several sources (see each row)Unknown
Updated not publishedConfidenceUnknownMethodologyno download for this view

Strait of Hormuz: Netherlands's direct crude exposure (national)

The share of the country's crude imports that came from origins loading inside the Persian Gulf. Measured per country, never per refinery.

National · NetherlandsNational context — not this refinery's own figure

National figure, not specific to this refinery: Between 3% and 5% of The Netherlands's crude oil imports in July 2026 came from Hormuz-dependent origins. No point estimate is published: the origins concerned export from both inside and outside the Persian Gulf and the split per period is not public. 0% of the imported volume came from origins with no published route classification; it is counted as unknown, not as zero. The range describes the country's crude imports; which of them reached ExxonMobil Rotterdam Refinery (Botlek) is not published. Calculated

July 20263-5%CalculatedUnknown
Source
EIA, IEA and terminal operators (cited per row)Calculated
Period 2026-07 (month)Updated 2026-09-24 07:44 UTCConfidenceUnknownMethodologyno download for this view

Sources used on this page

  1. https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/locations/netherlands/our-operations- Status; Site record; Connection: Rotterdam; Connection: unnamed crude pipelines from the Maasvlakte/Europoort tank farms
  2. https://github.com/oiramix/oil_routes/blob/main/data/reference/REFERENCE_DATA_SOURCES.md- How the refinery list was compiled; National Hormuz exposure
  3. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_ti_oilm/default/table?lang=en- National crude imports
  4. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/nrg_quant_esms.htm- National crude imports (methodology); National refinery output (methodology)
  5. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_cb_oilm/default/table?lang=en- National refinery output
Source notes for this refinery (verbatim)

CAPACITY DELIBERATELY EMPTY. ExxonMobil publishes no capacity figure on its own pages, and the third-party figures encountered (190,000 / 191,000 / 182,000 / 195,000 bpd) were on pages that returned HTTP 403 and were never opened, so none may be ingested. This is a real gap, not a zero. Flexicoker - no heavy fuel oil produced since the 1980s; a >$1bn hydrocracker producing Group II base oils was commissioned in 2019; integrated with the adjacent Rotterdam Aromatics Plant (1963). Coordinates are OpenStreetMap-derived (Nominatim/Overpass, queried 2026-09-21), not operator-published.

Record reference_refineries_v1 / exxonmobil-rotterdam-botlek, retrieved 2026-09-21 00:00 UTC, payload hash 5c78b6d08289.

How to read the labels
  • OfficialReported directly by an official authority.
  • VerifiedReported by a third party we have verified against a primary record.
  • CalculatedComputed by us from reported inputs. The method is published on the methodology page.
  • Inferred · highNot reported. Inferred from at least two independent physical records.
  • Inferred · mediumNot reported. Inferred from strong indirect evidence, with no explicit confirmation.
  • Inferred · lowNot reported. Plausible from infrastructure or movement data only. Do not read as fact.
  • UnknownNo defensible public evidence establishes this. We are not guessing, and this is not a measurement of zero.