The U.S. now provides nearly one-third of Dutch energy imports

The United States remained the Netherlands' largest energy supplier in 2025, providing almost a third of all imported energy, according to Statistics Netherlands. The Netherlands depended on imports for more than 77 percent of its energy consumption last year, with nearly a quarter of its oil and gas supplies coming from the U.S. No other country exported as much energy to the Netherlands.

Russia was the Netherlands' main energy supplier until 2022, but the country's reliance on Russian oil and gas declined sharply after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. Russian energy accounted for 21 percent of Dutch supplies before the war, compared with just 3 percent last year.

After phasing out Russian energy imports, the Netherlands began sourcing its crude oil from countries including the United States, Norway, Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom in 2023. It has also relied on the US and Norway to replace Russian natural gas supplies.

The Netherlands has become increasingly dependent on imported energy over the past decade. Foreign sources accounted for around 77 percent of the country's energy supply in 2025, up from nearly 70 percent in 2015, while 23 percent came from domestic production. Statistics Netherlands attributes the shift to the gradual scaling back of gas extraction at the Groningen gas field from 2014 and its eventual closure in 2023.

The European Union has reduced its reliance on Russian energy by increasing natural gas imports from Norway. Although the bloc obtained just over half of its energy from outside the EU in both 2015 and 2024, the share supplied by the United States grew significantly, rising from 1 percent to 9 percent over the period.