The Netherlands obtained nearly a quarter of its oil and gas supplies from the United States in 2025, according to Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Last year, the country relied on foreign energy for more than 77 percent of its consumption. Almost one‑third of those imports came from the US, making it the Netherlands’ largest supplier.
Before 2022, the Netherlands depended mainly on Russian energy. That changed after Russia invaded Ukraine. Imports of Russian oil and gas then fell sharply. In the year before the invasion, Russia supplied 21 percent of Dutch energy. Last year, that share had dropped to 3 percent.
Since 2023, the Netherlands has replaced Russian oil with supplies from the US, Norway, Kazakhstan, and the United Kingdom. It has also increased gas imports from the US and Norway.
Dutch dependence on foreign energy has grown over the past decade. It rose from nearly 70 percent in 2015 to around 77 percent in 2025. The remaining 23 percent came from domestic production. CBS says this shift is linked to the scaling down of natural gas extraction from the Groningen field from 2014 onwards and the closure of the field in 2023.
The European Union has also reduced its reliance on Russian energy. Instead, it has imported more gas from Norway. In 2024, just as in 2015, the EU sourced slightly more than half of its energy from outside its own borders. During that period, the share of energy imported from the US increased from 1 percent to 9 percent.
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