Product Description

Truck- and skid-mounted cementing units operated by BJ Services and Halliburton allegedly used asbestos-fabric lagging and asbestos-cloth wraps around the mixing hopper, jet mixer throat, and high-pressure discharge piping to protect operators from hot cement-water slurry and diesel exhaust heat, according to publicly filed asbestos litigation records. Cementing pumpers allegedly worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the hopper while mixing neat cement and additives, allegedly abrading and disturbing the lagging.

Workers Exposed

Cementing service crews (pumpers, hopper operators, unit operators) allegedly worked the unit during every casing cement job. Oilfield mechanics allegedly rebuilt cementing units in the yard, allegedly stripping and re-wrapping lagging. Roughnecks on the rig floor allegedly stood downwind of the unit throughout the cement job.