oil futures turned higher tuesday after news reports said russia halted crude flows along the druzhba pipeline toward hungary the czech republic and slovakia   west texas intermediate crude for september delivery cl1 cl00 clu22 rose 125 or 14 to 9201 a barrel on the new york mercantile exchange   october brent crude brn00 brnv22 the global benchmark was up 132 or 14 at 9797 a barrel on ice futures europe   back on nymex september gasoline rbu22 rose 17 to 2935 a gallon while september heating oil hou22 rallied 38 to 3299 a gallon russia suspended crude flows through the druzhba pipeline toward hungary the czech republic and slovakia on tuesday after sanctions prevented payment of a transit fee bloomberg reported tuesday druzhba is the world’s longest pipeline network wti slumped last week to a sixmonth low while brent hit its lowest since midfebruary as recession fears overshadowed supply concerns recession worries were blunted friday after a much strongerthanexpected us jobs report for july demand concerns may remain difficult to shake as china crude imports remain subdued in light of the country’s efforts to contain covid19 outbreaks “unless domestic demand picks up noticeably or more fuel exports are allowed refineries are hardly likely to want to import more crude oil chinese crude oil imports are set to decrease for the second year in a row resulting in the lowest annual import volume since 2018” said carsten fritsch commodity analyst at commerzbank in a note “for now the days when china served as the engine of global oil demand are a thing of the past and this will do nothing to ease demand concerns on the oil market” he wrote