{"title":"Petroleum, coal and oil products market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/092-petroleum-coal-and-oil-products","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"092","label":"Petroleum, coal and oil products"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 912 supply contracts for petroleum, coal and oil products through award notices on TED; the 692 of them that state a value (75.9%) add up to €163 million. EU countries together imported €243 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to petroleum, coal and oil products in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2709, 3403, 2712, 2708, 2714 and 2706; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 21.6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 577 companies have won 2,680 public supply contracts for petroleum, coal and oil products in 30 European countries, in 1,315 award notices from 492 public buyers.","0.6% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 16.4% of all awards across Europe.","26.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":2680,"awardNotices":1315,"winningCompanies":577,"publicBuyers":492,"awardsWithValue":2064,"awardedValueEur":731622076,"localAwards":2663,"foreignAwards":17,"top5Share":0.16417910447761194,"singleBidAwards":674,"awardsWithKnownBids":2556,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":26,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":21,"awardedValueEur":476583},{"year":2024,"awards":715,"awardNotices":286,"awardsWithValue":498,"awardedValueEur":323014340},{"year":2025,"awards":912,"awardNotices":443,"awardsWithValue":692,"awardedValueEur":162787987},{"year":2026,"awards":1027,"awardNotices":578,"awardsWithValue":853,"awardedValueEur":245343165}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2709","label":"Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, crude"},{"hs4":"3403","label":"Lubricant preparations, incl. cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anti-corrosion preparations and mould-release preparations based on lubricants"},{"hs4":"2712","label":"Petroleum jelly, paraffin wax, micro- crystalline petroleum wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax, peat wax, other mineral waxes, and similar products obtained by synthesis or by other processes, whether or not coloured"},{"hs4":"2708","label":"Pitch and pitch coke, obtained from coal tar or from other mineral tars"},{"hs4":"2714","label":"Bitumen and asphalt, natural"},{"hs4":"2706","label":"Tar distilled from coal, from lignite or from peat, and other mineral tars, whether or not dehydrated or partially distilled, incl. reconstituted tars"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":309524459279},{"year":2024,"valueEur":302845809659},{"year":2025,"valueEur":242658563185}]},"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, \"Petroleum, coal and oil products market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/092-petroleum-coal-and-oil-products, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}