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December 2025 Secretary Update

December 8, 2025 

December 2025 Secretary Update

Season's Greetings to the Commission. We sincerely thank you for your trust and partnership over the past decade and throughout this last year. As the year draws to a close, we reflect on our shared successes and the important role the Commission has played in achieving our goals. We are truly grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with you. Wishing you and your families a wonderful Christmas and a New Year brimming with new opportunities!

“And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.”

- Linus

Shannon Chollett
Division Administrator - Minerals, Navigable Waters, Oil & Gas
Secretary to the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission

Current Items:

• Hearings
• Operations and Production
• News Articles of Interest
• Current Prices

Hearings

Docket No. CC-2025-OGR-01-005, Application for Integration

Snake River Oil & Gas LLC (SROG) submitted an application September 29, 2025 requesting to integrate the mineral interests in the 400-acre spacing unit approved in Docket No. CC-2025-OGR-01-002. This spacing units consists of the SE ¼ of Section 15, the E ½ of the SW ¼ of Section 15, and the NE ¼ of Section 22, Township 8 North, Range 5 West, Payette County Idaho. The docket was transferred to the Office of Administrative Hearings, and the hearing has been re-scheduled for Wednesday, December 17, 2025 in Fruitland.  

Operations and Production

Canyon County

Vantage Geophysical completed acquisition of their 47-mile 2D seismic program for Cascade Exploration LLC in mid-November. Additional seismic may be proposed, depending on drilling results from the Twin Peaks #1W well.

Cascade Exploration, LLC was awarded a Permit to Drill the Twin Peaks #1W, a 12,000 foot natural/geologic hydrogen test in Canyon County on November 7, 2025. The well spudded the week of November 10, 2025 and surface casing was set November 15, 2025. Intermediate casing was set November 21, 2025. Both operations were witnessed by the Department. As of December 1, 2025, the well was drilling ahead at 8,237 feet.

On November 25, 2025, eight staff from Idaho Department of Lands and Vice Chair Jennifer Riebe from the OGCC attended a rig tour of the Twin Peaks #1W drill site. Also attending were several state representatives for southwest Idaho along with various staff members from the Governor’s office and other Idaho state agencies. Employees from Cascade’s parent company Koloma conducted the tour and were available to answer questions about the drilling operations and hydrogen exploration in Idaho.

Payette County

Snake River Oil & Gas, LLC (SROG) has completed operations to add perforations to the upper sand (UT zone) in the ML Investments #1-11 (USWN 11-075-20025). The final recompletion report will be submitted to the Department.

SROG will commence well treatment operations on the ML Investments #2-10 (USWN 11-075-20022) in early December. The well treatment is expected to take approximately three weeks.

SROG reports that the conversion of the DJS #2-14 well to a Class II injection well remains on hold pending improved gas prices.

News Articles of Interest

November 13, 2025: Texas granted primacy over Class VI injection wells

November 21, 2025: Power grid regulator says Pacific Northwest in “crosshairs” for potential winter blackouts

November 28, 2025: Alaska publishes draft rules for carbon sequestration

Current Prices

• NW Natural Gas (EIA), $3.93 / million Btu as of 12/4/2025 which is a 214% / $2.68 increase since previous month.
• NGL(EIA), $6.50 / million Btu as of 9/30/2025 which is a 5.3% / $0.33 increase since previous month.
• WTI, $59.09 / bbl as of 12/4/2025 which is a 2.2% / $1.31 decrease since previous month.