Asbestos / Mesothelioma Attorney in Houston, Texas

Houston Ship Channel — America's Asbestos Capital

The Houston Ship Channel petrochemical corridor stretches 50 miles from the Port of Houston to the Gulf of Mexico and contains the world's greatest concentration of oil refineries, chemical plants, and LNG facilities. For workers who maintained boilers, heat exchangers, distillation columns, and miles of high-temperature process piping at these facilities — predominantly using asbestos insulation until the early 1990s — the cumulative asbestos exposure was extraordinary. Pipefitters and boilermakers at the Exxon Baytown refinery (the largest in the U.S.), Shell Deer Park, Lyondell Basell, BASF, Celanese, and dozens of other facilities have produced thousands of mesothelioma cases. Shell Oil, Exxon, and other major operators remain solvent defendants in premises liability claims alongside trust fund claims from insulation manufacturers.