Energy reserves
How much energy Lithuania holds in reserve — in one place. Oil product stocks are measured in days: how many days the country could get by without imports. For gas — how full the Klaipėda LNG terminal's tank is, and how full the Inčukalns storage in Latvia is, where Lithuania's gas is kept too. The figures are Eurostat's and GIE's, with dates.
Oil
Figure for 2026-06
The days are counted by the EU rule: stocks divided by average daily net imports. Lithuania must hold at least 90 days.
The EU requires at least 90 days of net imports or 61 days of consumption — whichever is greater.
What the chart shows
2026-06: 86.8 days — 3.2 days below the EU minimum (90).
Over a year: −7.1 days (a year earlier, 2025-06: 93.9 days).
Average of the last 3 months: 86.7 days. Below the minimum in 4 of the last 12 months.
Last 12 months' average change: −0.6 days a month — at that pace the 90-day line would not be crossed in the next 24 months.
This is only a straight-line continuation of the last 12 months: stock levels follow decisions, not trends.
What the rules provide if stocks stay below the minimum: under EU Directive 2009/119/EC the state reports the shortfall and how it will be covered to the Commission, which may open infringement proceedings. Lithuania's law on oil-product and oil state reserves obliges the Energy Agency and the obligated companies to rebuild the stocks.
Days equivalent is not the number of days the country could physically run without imports — it is a compliance measure computed against net imports.
Source: Eurostat, dataset nrg_stk_oem.
Klaipėda LNG terminal
Gas day 2026-09-22
This is the terminal's working stock, not a strategic reserve — it changes with every ship.
A year ago on the same day: 56.7 % (change +31.9 pp). Over 30 days: +32.1 pp.
There is no minimum for a terminal tank; the EU storage-filling targets bind Latvia's storage, not Lithuania.
Source: GIE ALSI
Inčukalns storage (Latvia)
Gas day 2026-09-22
The only storage in the region; Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland share it. Lithuania's strategic gas reserve is held here.
A year ago on the same day: 55.0 % (change −6.9 pp). Over 30 days: +3.5 pp.
There is no minimum for a terminal tank; the EU storage-filling targets bind Latvia's storage, not Lithuania.
Source: GIE AGSI
How it is counted
Oil days are Eurostat's nrg_stk_oem: Lithuania's emergency stocks of crude oil and oil products, expressed in days. It is Lithuania's own report to the European Union. Eurostat publishes it monthly but several months behind, so the newest month here is usually not last month.
The LNG terminal figures are daily data from GIE's (Gas Infrastructure Europe) ALSI platform on the floating storage unit Independence: how much liquefied natural gas it holds (GWh) and what share of its declared maximum that is.
Inčukalns figures are daily data from GIE's AGSI platform on Latvia's storage. Latvia has one storage facility, so the country figure is the Inčukalns figure: how much gas it holds (TWh) and what share of its working gas volume that is.
Eurostat sometimes revises the latest months, and GIE the latest days. When they do, the figure changes here too.