有更多迹象表明，随着天然气价格飙升和库存减少，卡塔尔正在加大液化天然气出口。
There are more signs that Qatar is ramping up liquefied natural gas exports as prices surge and inventories dwindle ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter.
据彭博社报道，一艘油轮正通过红海驶往波兰，自9月初以来，至少还有20批货物通过霍尔木兹海峡运往其他目的地。
One tanker is now sailing toward Poland through the Red Sea, according to Bloomberg, and at least 20 more shipments have passed through the Strait of Hormuz to other destinations since early September.
这些天然气有助于抑制消费者价格的上涨，并减缓卡塔尔2000亿美元经济的下滑速度，国际货币基金组织预计该国经济今年将收缩15.6%。
The gas could help halt the surge in consumer prices and slow the decline of Qatar’s $200 billion economy, which the IMF expects to contract by 15.6% this year.
目前尚不清楚这些液化天然气是如何运出的：卡塔尔总理上个月表示，在战争的前六个月，买家已与伊朗协商通过了少数货物的运输。
It’s unclear how the LNG is getting out: Qatar’s prime minister said last month that buyers had negotiated passage with Iran for the few cargoes that made it through during the first six months of the war.
但多哈似乎也采用了海湾原油出口国正在使用的‘霍尔木兹穿梭’策略。
But Doha also seems to have adopted the “Hormuz shuttle” strategy Gulf crude exporters are using.
彭博社通过追踪卡塔尔最古老的液化天然气运输船‘Al Rayyan’的航行路线，发现该船在将货物转移到阿曼湾的另一艘船上后，返回拉斯拉芬港进行重新装载。
Tracing the journey of Al Rayyan, one of Qatar’s oldest LNG tankers, Bloomberg tracked the vessel transferring its cargo to another ship in the Gulf of Oman before returning to Ras Laffan to reload.
液化天然气船对船的运输比石油运输更为复杂，需要使用低温软管来处理冷却至零下162摄氏度（零下260华氏度）的天然气。
LNG ship-to-ship transfers are more complex than oil transfers, requiring cryogenic hoses to handle gas chilled to minus 162 C (minus 260 F).
然而，这些努力正在取得成效：彭博社报道称，卡塔尔能源公司9月份的液化天然气出口量已恢复到战前的三分之一左右。
The effort is paying off, however: QatarEnergy restored LNG exports in September to about a third of prewar levels, Bloomberg reported.
