Texas oil regulator: ‘What our eyes are on is not the pain of today. It’s the pain of the future’

Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton thinks it’s important to put the current crisis facing the oil industry into context.

Around 1975, the oil and gas market was the most over-supplied it has ever been, Sitton said Friday in an interview with the Dallas Business Journal. During that time, the market was over-supplied by 5.7 percent. Currently, the market is speculated to be nearly 15 percent over-supplied.

“It’s important to recognize that we are in truly exceptional times,” he said.…

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