Which Reminds Me

Our family owns mineral rights in Texas. Whenever we lease the property to the oil exploration people, the law gives them access to the property for testing purposes. Sort of the way the meter man sometimes comes to your house to check the water meter. So there is nothing invasive of their privacy in the oil people's testing practices, besides which the farmer purchased half of the mineral rights from us to start with so theoretically he would get his share also, assuming there were anything there. So? This unbelievably extensive violation of my privacy hardly compares to the minimal access granted by mineral rights. There is something very wrong with this picture.