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Did you work with Baroid Asbestos Drilling Mud Additives (Visquik, Baroid Asbestos Fiber)? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Baroid Asbestos Drilling Mud Additives (Visquik, Baroid Asbestos Fiber), made by Baroid Nl Industries, sold from around the 1950s until 1985. Baroid Industries (NL Industries) sold raw chrysotile asbestos fiber to oilfield drilling operators as Visquik and Baroid Asbestos Fiber drilling-mud viscosifier through the late asbestos era. Plaintiffs allege rig hands handling and mixing the dry asbestos powder were directly exposed to respirable fibers. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: chrysotile asbestos fiber added to drilling fluids as viscosifier. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Oilfield mud engineers, Drilling rig hands, Oilfield laborers, and Oil-and-gas workers. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Baroid Asbestos Drilling Mud Additives (Visquik, Baroid Asbestos Fiber) and were later diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim against the manufacturer. This is educational information from an independent publisher — not a law firm — and is not legal advice.
Product Description
Baroid Industries (a division of NL Industries, Inc., later acquired by Halliburton) manufactured and sold through the 1950s into the mid-1980s a line of drilling-mud viscosifier additives consisting in substantial part of raw, dry chrysotile asbestos fiber packaged for oilfield use under the trade names Visquik and Baroid Asbestos. The product was poured directly from sacks into the drilling-mud system at the rig to increase the carrying capacity of the circulating mud — particularly in lost-circulation zones and deep wells.
Baroid Visquik and similar oilfield asbestos additives are among the most heavily-documented direct-exposure asbestos products in U.S. occupational litigation. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that rig hands, mud engineers, and oilfield laborers who opened and emptied Baroid asbestos sacks directly into drilling-mud systems were exposed to substantial concentrations of respirable chrysotile fiber — often without respiratory protection and in dust-dispersing outdoor rig environments where the dry fiber was readily airborne.
Baroid Industries / NL Industries has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Oilfield mud engineers (mud mixers)
- Drilling-rig hands (derrick hands, floor hands, motormen)
- Oilfield laborers and yard crews handling sacked product
- Oil-and-gas industry workers across all regions — Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, the Gulf of Mexico, California, and offshore worldwide
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