Nope,if you own land in Ector County you do not own the mineral rights. They were retained by the original owners and over the years have been leased,sold or donated to the University school system.(out around Goldsmith)
If the oil companies want to drill a well in your backyard they have to pay you for access rights but you can't stop them and the royalties go to whoever owns the mineral rights.
You might want to check with an attorney but that's pretty close to right as I recall and I still have friends that dread the day an oil company shows up to drill a well on their land because there's not a thing they can legally do to stop it.
BTW,I was born and raised in and around Odessa and ended up back there from time to time my whole life. It's pure poison to me and since my mother passed the only way I'd go back is with a bullet between my eyes and they drag my rotting corpse back. Yeah,I hate it that bad.
I wasn’t referring to the mineral rights but the proximity to a neighborhood of homes to a facility that would produce, even by accident, HS2 inside it. I know about mineral rights, as I have some...some very useless ones in another Texas location.
Congrats on “escaping” Odessa. I would leave here in a heartbeat but my hubby likes it and he also hates moving. He did that too much growing up around here with a dad that was a tool pusher...and when in the AF. So here we sit. LOL!