China asks state firms to add 60 mln barrels of oil to reserves, Vortexa and sources say

China has asked its state oil companies to add 8 million metric tons, or nearly 60 million barrels, of crude oil to the country’s emergency stockpiles to boost supply security, according to analytics firm Vortexa and trading sources. The stockpiling, if completed, would be one of China’s largest in recent years and lend support to ...