Product Description
IMCO Services — historically headquartered in Houston, Texas and later absorbed into Halliburton’s drilling-fluids business — manufactured and sold through the asbestos era a line of drilling-mud asbestos viscosifier additives, including the IMCOLITE product line. IMCO was the third of the three principal U.S. oilfield asbestos suppliers (alongside Baroid and Magcobar) and shipped sacked dry chrysotile asbestos fiber for direct rig-floor addition to drilling-mud systems throughout the documented oilfield asbestos era.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that IMCO Services asbestos drilling-mud additives exposed rig hands, mud engineers, and oilfield laborers to substantial respirable chrysotile fiber concentrations and that the product line continued in U.S. oilfield distribution into the mid-1980s.
IMCO Services has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Oilfield mud engineers
- Drilling-rig hands
- Oilfield laborers and yard workers
- Oil-and-gas industry workers across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and offshore