The perfect storm of a healthy appetite from China, a decline in global inventories and a major North Sea pipeline outage sent oil prices higher on Tuesday. After a relatively quiet start to the day, Brent crude oil prices shot up 2 percent during Monday’s session after pipeline operator Ineos shut down the Forties crude network in the North Sea after discovering a “hairline crack” on a pipe near Aberdeen, Scotland, last week. The system carries about 40 percent of the oil produced in the British waters of the North Sea, or about 450,000 barrels of oil per day. London oil broker PVM said the outage, which Ineos said could take weeks to resolve, “is one of the most significant unplanned crude oil […]