Crude and petroleum products balance sheet; supply and consumption
| Energy commodities | Periods | Supply Imports Inland (mln kg) | Supply Exports Inland (mln kg) | Supply Bunkers International inland shipping (mln kg) | Bonded area movement Bonded area to inland (mln kg) | Stocks Opening stocks Inland (mln kg) | Stocks Closing stocks Inland (mln kg) | Total Obligated stocks (WVA) Obligated stocks (WVA) in NL and abroad (mln kg) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total crudes and petroleum products | 2025 3rd quarter* | . | . | 180 | . | . | . | 4,462 |
| Total gas and diesel oil | 2025 3rd quarter* | . | . | 180 | . | . | . | 1,322 |
| White spirit and SBP | 2025 3rd quarter* | . | . | . | . | . | ||
| Source: CBS. | ||||||||
Table explanation
This table shows the supply and consumption of petroleum products and crudes as a balance sheet.
Petroleum products include the fuels LPG, motor gasoline and diesel oil. The balance includes products used for processing or consumption in the Netherlands as well as those intended for transit.
Crudes are crude oil, natural gas liquids and additives (intermediates for motor gasoline and transport diesel). Separate balance sheet items are available for feedstocks for processing in the Netherlands and for feedstocks for the transit trade. The difference between the two flows is that import tax is paid for products destined for production in the Netherlands, while it is not paid for transit goods.
The following standard densities are used to convert from kg to liters of Gasoline, Diesel and Autogas delivered including excise duty:
Petrol 0.75 kg/l, Diesel 0.836 kg/l and LPG 0.535 kg/l.
This table replaces the next tables:
Crude balance sheet; supply, consumption and stock, 1944 - April 2021
Petroleum products balance; supply, consumption and stock, 1946 - April 2021
Motor fuels; sales in petajoules, weight and volume, 1946 - April 2021
See section 3.
Data available:
From January 2015
Status of the figures:
- up to and including 2023 definite.
- 2024 is revised provisional.
- 2025 are provisional.
Changes as of November 26th 2025:
Figures added for September 2025.
Changes as of November 18th 2025:
Figures for 2025 have been updated. Figures from 2015 up to and including 2024 have been revised. The revision primarily concerns improved data on gas/diesel oil consumption by mobile equipment in the construction and services sectors. These changes amount to a few PJ. This revision has also affected road transport diesel consumption, which from that year onwards is determined as total taxable supply of gas/diesel oil minus supply of taxable gas/diesel oil to other sectors. Similar adjustments have been made for gasoline.
Changes as of Oktober 31st 2025:
Figures added for August 2025.
Changes as of September 30th 2025:
Figures added for July 2025.
When will new figures be published?
Provisional figures: in the second month after the month under review.
Definite figures: not later than in the second following December.
Description topics
- Supply
- The amount of crudes and petroleum products that has primarily become available for consumption in the Netherlands. Supply is calculated as indigenous production plus other sources plus production plus imports minus exports minus bunkers plus stock changes. This calculation of the supply results in the amount of crudes and petroleum products consumed in the Netherlands in the period concerned.
- Imports
- Imports of crudes and petroleum products.
- Inland
- Receipts of crudes and petroleum products from abroad directly to the inland.
- Exports
- Exports of crudes and petroleum products.
- Inland
- Exports of crudes and petroleum products from the Netherlands to abroad.
- Bunkers
- Delivery of fuels for international shipping and aviation, i.e. ships and aircraft departing from Dutch (air)ports and arriving in foreign (air)ports. In the energy balance sheet bunkers are considered as a form of export and are not included in energy available for consumption in the Netherlands.
- International inland shipping
- Delivery of fuels for international inland shipping. This concerns ships in Dutch ports and arriving in / at foreign ports. The post bunkers are seen in the energy balance as a form of export. The fuel will not be available for consumption in the Netherlands.
- Bonded area movement
- Goods flow from bonded area to the inland for which no excise and import duties have been paid.
- Bonded area to inland
- Foreign goods from bonded area to inland for processing and use.
- Stocks
- The amount of crudes and petroleum products stored in the Netherlands at the beginning and the end of the reporting period.
- Opening stocks
- The amount of crudes and petroleum products stored at the beginning of the reporting period.
- Inland
- Opening stock in the inland.
- Closing stocks
- The amount of crudes and petroleum products stored at the end of the reporting period.
- Inland
- Closing stock in the inland.
- Total Obligated stocks (WVA)
- Mandatory stock of crudes and petroleum products held under the law for strategic oil stocks, in Dutch: ‘Wet Voorraadvorming Aardolieproducten’ (WVA). As an OECD country, the Netherlands is obliged to maintain a strategic amount of oil is case of an emergency or oil crisis.
Figures from 2015 to 2017 are not included in this table.- Obligated stocks (WVA) in NL and abroad
- Total mandatory stock of crudes and petroleum products held under the law for strategic oil stocks.
Figures from 2015 to 2017 are not included in this table.