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Organization, Basis of Presentation, and Significant Accounting Policies
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Organization, Basis of Presentation, and Significant Accounting Policies ORGANIZATION, BASIS OF PRESENTATION, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Organization

We are an energy services and solutions company with operations on six continents focused on developing environmentally conscious services and solutions that help make people's lives better. In addition to providing products and services to the oil and gas industry and calcium chloride for diverse applications, TETRA is expanding into the low-carbon energy market with chemistry expertise, key mineral acreage, and global infrastructure, helping to meet the demand for sustainable energy in the twenty-first century. We were incorporated in Delaware in 1981. Our products and services are delivered through two reporting segments – Completion Fluids & Products Division and Water & Flowback Services Division.

Our Completion Fluids & Products Division manufactures and markets clear brine fluids (“CBFs”), additives, and associated products and services to the oil and gas industry for use in well drilling, completion, and workover operations in the United States and in certain countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The Division also markets liquid and dry calcium chloride products manufactured at its production facilities or purchased from third-party suppliers to a variety of markets outside the energy industry. Calcium chloride is used in the oil and gas industry, and also has broad industrial applications to the agricultural, road, food and beverage, and lithium production markets. Our Completion Fluids & Products Division also markets TETRA PureFlow, an ultra-pure zinc bromide, as well as TETRA PureFlow Plus, an ultra-pure zinc bromide/zinc chloride blend, to battery technology companies.

Our Water & Flowback Services Division provides onshore oil and gas operators with comprehensive water management services. The Division also provides frac flowback, production well testing, and other associated services in many of the major oil and gas producing regions in the United States, as well as in oil and gas basins in certain countries in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. We are also developing and pilot testing technologies to treat and desalinate produced water from oil wells for beneficial reuse, including surface discharge.

Unless the context requires otherwise, when we refer to “we,” “us,” and “our,” we are describing TETRA Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

Presentation

Our unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of our wholly owned or controlled subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The information furnished reflects all normal recurring adjustments, which are, in the opinion of management, necessary to provide a fair statement of the results for the interim periods. Operating results for the period ended June 30, 2025 are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for the twelve months ended December 31, 2025.

The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X for interim financial statements required to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and do not include all information and footnotes required by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) for complete financial statements. These financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024 and notes thereto included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 25, 2025 (the “2024 Annual Report”).

Discontinued Operations

In early 2018, we closed a series of related transactions that resulted in the disposition of our former Offshore segment. Our former Offshore segment is reported as discontinued operations for all periods presented. We may be required to satisfy certain decommissioning liabilities under third-party indemnity agreements and corporate guarantees for which costs may be significant. During the three months ended September 30, 2024, we accrued $5.8 million of decommissioning expense and liability associated with our former Offshore segment for which costs might be above the value of surety bonds on properties previously disposed. See Note 6 - “Commitments and Contingencies” for additional discussion of contingencies related to discontinued operations.
Significant Accounting Policies

Our significant accounting policies are described in the notes to our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024 included in our 2024 Annual Report. Other than reporting restricted cash as described below, there have been no significant changes in our accounting policies or the application thereof during the second quarter of 2025.

Out-of-Period Correction

During the three months ended March 31, 2025, we recorded an adjustment to our deferred tax liability related to a correction to our 2024 tax provision. This adjustment increased income tax benefit by $1.2 million and increased net income per share attributable to TETRA stockholders by $0.01 in the consolidated statement of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The Company assessed the impact of this out-of-period adjustment and concluded that it was not material to the financial statements previously issued for any interim or annual period, and the adjustment during the quarter ended March 31, 2025 is not expected to be material to the annual financial statements for 2025.

Restricted Cash

Restricted cash is classified as a current asset when it is expected to be repaid or settled in the next twelve-month period. As of June 30, 2025, restricted cash consists of less than $0.1 million held in escrow in connection with our Arkansas development.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclose contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues, expenses, and impairments during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates, and such differences could be material.

Mineral Resources Arrangement

We have rights to the brine underlying our approximately 40,000 gross acres of brine leases in the Smackover Formation in Southwest Arkansas, including rights to the bromine and lithium contained in the brine. In June 2023, we entered into a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) with Saltwerx LLC (“Saltwerx”), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corporation, relating to the Evergreen Unit, and potential bromine and lithium production from brine produced from the unit. We completed an initial preliminary economic assessment in early 2023 for the extraction of the brine and for a bromine processing plant. On January 8, 2024, we announced the completion of a technical resources report for the Evergreen Unit in Arkansas. We capitalized approximately $10.9 million and $22.0 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, and $9.8 million and $13.9 million for the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively, of costs associated with the development of our properties in Arkansas.

Foreign Currency Translation

We have designated the Euro, the British pound, the Canadian dollar, the Brazilian real as the functional currencies for our operations in Finland and Sweden, the United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil, respectively. The United States dollar is the designated functional currency for most of our other non-U.S. operations. The cumulative translation effects of translating the applicable accounts from the functional currencies into the United States dollar at current exchange rates are included as a separate component of equity. Foreign currency exchange (gains) losses are included in other (income) expense, net and totaled $(0.8) million and $8.1 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, respectively, and $2.5 million and $2.4 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, respectively. Foreign currency exchange (gains) losses during the six months ended June 30, 2025 include recognition of a $9.5 million cumulative foreign currency translation adjustment loss, which was reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive loss due to the dissolution of our former subsidiary in Canada during the three months ended March 31, 2025.
Fair Value Measurements

We utilize fair value measurements to account for certain items and account balances within our consolidated financial statements. Fair value measurements are utilized on a recurring basis in the determination of the carrying values of certain investments. See Note 7 - “Fair Value Measurements” for further discussion. Fair value measurements are also utilized on a nonrecurring basis in certain circumstances, including the impairment of long-lived assets (a Level 3 fair value measurement).

Supplemental Cash Flow Information

Supplemental cash flow information is as follows:
Six Months Ended
June 30,
20252024
(in thousands)
Interest paid$10,046 $10,830 
Income taxes paid$6,189 $2,991 
June 30, 2025December 31, 2024
(in thousands)
Accrued capital expenditures$4,050 $7,131 

New Accounting Pronouncements

Standards not yet adopted

In November 2024, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2024-03, “Income Statement–Reporting Comprehensive Income–Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40)” ("ASU 2024-03"). ASU 2024-03 requires additional disclosures about certain expenses included in the income statement, including purchases of inventory, employee compensation, intangible asset amortization and depreciation. ASU 2024-03 is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026 and interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2027 with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of ASU 2024-03 on its financial statements and related disclosures.

In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures.” The new standard requires companies to disclose specific categories in the income tax rate reconciliation and provide additional information for reconciling items that meet a quantitative threshold. ASU 2023-09 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption permitted.

The Company is currently evaluating the expected impact of these standards but does not expect them to have a significant impact on its consolidated financial statements upon adoption as the standards expand disclosures only.