{"title":"Fuels market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/091-fuels","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"091","label":"Fuels"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 8,839 supply contracts for fuels through award notices on TED; the 6,318 of them that state a value (71.5%) add up to €7.77 billion. EU countries together imported €293 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to fuels in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2710, 2711, 2701, 2704, 2703 and 3 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 25.3% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 2,523 companies have won 23,517 public supply contracts for fuels in 30 European countries, in 10,464 award notices from 5,179 public buyers.","0.7% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 19.7% of all awards across Europe.","32.5% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":23517,"awardNotices":10464,"winningCompanies":2523,"publicBuyers":5179,"awardsWithValue":17235,"awardedValueEur":23362030393,"localAwards":23346,"foreignAwards":171,"top5Share":0.19675128630352512,"singleBidAwards":7218,"awardsWithKnownBids":22197,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":272,"awardNotices":155,"awardsWithValue":196,"awardedValueEur":248225126},{"year":2024,"awards":6693,"awardNotices":3269,"awardsWithValue":4571,"awardedValueEur":6887292262},{"year":2025,"awards":8839,"awardNotices":3826,"awardsWithValue":6318,"awardedValueEur":7770397371},{"year":2026,"awards":7713,"awardNotices":3214,"awardsWithValue":6150,"awardedValueEur":8456115634}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2710","label":"Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals (excl. crude)"},{"hs4":"2711","label":"Petroleum gas and other gaseous hydrocarbons"},{"hs4":"2701","label":"Coal"},{"hs4":"2704","label":"Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite or of peat, whether or not agglomerated"},{"hs4":"2703","label":"Peat, incl. peat litter, whether or not agglomerated"},{"hs4":"4402","label":"Wood charcoal, incl. shell or nut charcoal, whether or not agglomerated (excl. wood charcoal used as a medicament, charcoal mixed with incense, activated charcoal and charcoal in the form of crayons)"},{"hs4":"2702","label":"Lignite, whether or not agglomerated (excl. jet)"},{"hs4":"2705","label":"Coal gas, water gas, producer gas, lean gas and similar gases (excl. petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":392220043203},{"year":2024,"valueEur":319360012885},{"year":2025,"valueEur":292898873444}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Fuels market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/091-fuels, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}