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Europe and China account for 90 percent of Russia's oil exports.

That has made it harder for Europe to impose similar bans as the U.S. does.

According to the International Energy Agency, Russia is the world's biggest exporter of oil to global markets and the second-largest exporter of crude oil behind Saudi Arabia.

China is the largest single purchaser of that oil, while European nations are the largest collective buyers. Europe bought up 42 percent of Russia's total oil production, while China bought 14 percent and 30 percent stayed in Russia.

Germany, the Netherlands, the U.S., Poland and South Korea are some of the countries that purchase Russian oil.

Outside of Europe, most of Russia's customers are drawn from a wide variety of sources.

European nations, which imported seven times as much Russian oil as the United States, are more reliant on Russian oil imports.

Lithuania gets 83 percent of its oil imports from Russia, followed by Finland, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and Estonia.

Germany is followed by Norway, Belgium, Turkey,Denmark, and Spain.

Norway is the 13th largest producer of oil in the world, and it imported less than half a million barrels of oil from Russia every day in 2021.

Russia is a major producer and consumer of oil, coal and natural gas, as well as various refined products made from them. The energy equivalent of 11 billion barrels of oil was produced by Russia's fossil fuel industry.

Russian oil and natural gas are vital sources of power and heat for many European countries, and Russian oil is the dominant source of gasoline and other refined petroleum products.

According to the IEA, the country exported about 54 percent of its coal, 31 percent of its natural gas and 70 percent of its oil in 2019.

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