{"id":856735,"date":"2026-09-22T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856735\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:46:24","slug":"eu-oil-imports-value-up-by-56-volume-stable-in-q2-2026-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856735\/","title":{"rendered":"EU oil imports value up by 56%, volume stable in Q2 2026 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In the second quarter of 2026, the value of the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a>\u2019s petroleum oil <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Import\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">imports<\/a> rose sharply, by 55.8%, however their volume remained mostly stable compared with the monthly average in 2025, at 36.7 million tonnes (+1.2%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Regarding liquefied natural gas, import value rose by 4.1% and import volume fell by 5.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In the same period, imports of natural gas in gaseous form rose in both value (+18.5%) and volume (+3.4%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/extra-eu-imports-natural-gas-petroleum-oil-2022-q2-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Extra-EU imports of natural gas and petroleum oil, 2022-Q2 2026, in value (monthly average, \u20ac billion) and volume (monthly average, million tonnes). Double bar chart. Link to data below. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/extra-eu-imports-natural-gas-petroleum-oil-2022-q2-2026.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/energy-update-sep-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comext and Eurostat estimates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Largest energy suppliers in Q2 2026 remain unchanged: United States and Norway<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In the second quarter of 2026, the main suppliers of petroleum oil to the EU were the United States (18.8%), Norway (14.3%) and Kazakhstan (13.4%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The majority of liquefied natural gas was imported from the United States (63.2%). Another 17.3% came from Russia and 8.1% from Algeria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Norway was the main supplier of natural gas in its gaseous state (51.2%), followed by Algeria (18.2%) and the United Kingdom (11.1%), which surpassed Russia (10.2%) among the top 3 partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/extra-eu-imports-energy-products-q2-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Extra-EU imports of energy products by partner, Q2 2026 (% of trade in value). Triple pie charts. Link to data below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/extra-eu-imports-energy-products-q2-2026.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/energy-update-sep-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Comext and Eurostat estimates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the second quarter of 2026, the value of the EU\u2019s petroleum oil imports rose sharply, by 55.8%,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,4074,101,161375,3139],"class_list":["post-856735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-ext","tag-international-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}