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Eurostat: Romania, among EU states least dependent on energy imports
Denmark is the only country in the European Union (EU) which was a net energy exporter in 2012, but Romania is among the EU countries that are least dependent on energy imports (23 percent), a lower dependence less only registered by Estonia (17 percent), according to data the European Office of Statistics (Eurostat) released on Monday.
Between 2006 and 2012, energy consumption decreased in 24 member states (Romania included) and increased only in Estonia (11.6 percent), the Netherlands (2.9 percent), Poland (0.8 percent) and Sweden (0.4 percent). The most significant decreases were registered in Lithuania (17 percent), Portugal (15.2 percent), Greece (14.4 percent), Hungary (14.2 percent), Denmark (13.9 percent) and Romania (12.8 percent).
In 2012, the main energy producers in the EU were France (133 million tonnes of oil equivalent, 17 percent of the total EU production), Germany (124 million tonnes of oil equivalent, 16 percent of the total EU production), the United Kingdom (116 million tonnes of oil equivalent, 15 percent of the total EU production), Poland (71 million tonnes of oil equivalent, 9 percent of the EU production) and the Netherlands (65 million tonnes or 8 percent of the EU production). Together, the five states were responsible for 64 percent of the total EU energy production.
The total primary energy production of Romania in 2012 (27.4 million tonnes of oil equivalent) was lower than that of the Czech Republic (32 million tonnes of oil equivalent). However, Romania ranked fourth in 2012 in the EU as concerns oil production, with 4.1 million tonnes of oil equivalent, after the United Kingdom (45.8 million tonnes), Denmark (10.2 million tonnes) and Italy (5.7 million tonnes).
Furthermore, Romania occupies a similar place as concerns the production of natural gas (8.7 million tonnes of oil equivalent), after the Netherlands (57.5 million tonnes of oil equivalent), the United Kingdom (35 million tonnes of oil equivalent) and Germany (9.6 million tonnes of oil equivalent).