North Dakota On Track To Issue Exactly 3,000 Oil And Gas Permits This Calendar Year (2014) -- December 5, 2014

See this post for background. In that post, earlier in November, North Dakota was on track to issue 3,016 permits.

As of Friday, December 5, 2014, North Dakota is on track to issue exactly 3,000 oil and gas permits this year.

One can track this data here, but the page has not been fully updated.