If you have any lingering doubt that Permian natural gas production and Gulf Coast LNG exports will continue rising, consider this: Between late August and late November, a WhiteWater Midstream-led team received enough incremental shipper interest in its planned 2.5-Bcf/d Eiger Express Pipeline that it upsized the project’s capacity to a whopping 3.7 Bcf/d. In today’s RBN blog, we’ll discuss the expansion plan — which includes a rare long-haul run of 48-inch-diameter pipe — and the extraordinary gas supply and demand growth that’s driving it.
Warning: Today’s blog includes a few not-so-subliminal mentions of RBN’s Arrow Model and our upcoming GasCon 2026 conference, to be held in Houston on February 25.
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It was only three months ago that we looked at the then newly announced plan for Eiger Express (dashed dark-blue line in Figure 1 below), which at the time was expected to add 2.5 Bcf/d of takeaway capacity from the Waha Hub and Midland Basin to the Katy, TX, area by mid-2028. That plan still stands, but the team developing the greenfield pipeline alongside the existing 490-mile, 42-inch, 2.5-Bcf/d Matterhorn Express Pipeline (dark-green line) said on November 24 that, due to a new round of long-term commitments from shippers, they plan to swap out Eiger Express’s previously planned 42-inch pipe for 48-inch pipe, install more compression, and add 1.2 Bcf/d to the facility’s capacity between mid-2028 and mid-2029.
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About the song
“Eye of the Tiger” was written by Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik and appears as the first song of Survivor’s third studio album of the same name. It is also the first song on side one of the Rocky III: Original Motion Picture Score soundtrack album. The song was used as the theme song for the film. Rocky III star Sylvester Stallone approached the band to write a song with a pulse to match the punches in the boxing scenes in the movie.
Released as a single in May 1982, “Eye of the Tiger” went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart and has been certified 8X Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It won Best Rock Performance by Duo or Group with Vocal at the 25th Annual Grammy Awards. In May 2024, the video for “Eye of the Tiger” reached 1 billion views on YouTube. Personnel on the record were: Dave Bickler (lead vocals), Jim Peterik (keyboards, backing vocals). Frankie Sullivan (guitar, backing vocals), Stephan Ellis (bass), Marc Droubay (drums), Daryl Dragon ( additional keyboards, synthesizer, E-Mu Emulator; Dragon is the Captain in Captain & Tennille and owner of Rumbo Recorders), and Fergie Frederiksen (backing vocals).
The album Eye of the Tiger was recorded during the winter of 1981-82 at Rumbo Recorders in Canoga Park, CA. Produced by Survivor guitarist/songwriter Frankie Sullivan, it was released in June 1982 and went to #2 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. It has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Three singles were released from the LP.
Survivor is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1978 by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan. Peterik was formerly with the Chicago band Ides of March and wrote their 1970 hit single, “Vehicle.” Survivor released eight studio albums, one live album, 17 compilation albums and 24 singles. They won a Grammy Award in 1983. Twenty-six members have passed through the band since its formation. They last played a concert in 2020.
"About the Song" -- written by Mickey McMahan , RBN Director of Musicology
