THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Aug. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- TETRA Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TTI) (TETRA or the Company) today announced a consolidated second quarter 2016 net loss per share attributable to TETRA stockholders of $(0.32), which compares to earnings of $0.19 in the second quarter of 2015.

TETRA's adjusted per share results attributable to TETRA stockholders for the second quarter of 2016, excluding Maritech and other charges, were a loss of $(0.15), which compares to adjusted diluted earnings per share attributable to TETRA stockholders of $0.17 in the second quarter of 2015, also excluding Maritech and other charges. Second quarter 2016 revenue of $175.7 million declined 44% from the second quarter of 2015 primarily as a result of a 50% reduction in the North American rig count. (Adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share is a non-GAAP financial measure that is reconciled to the nearest GAAP measure in the accompanying schedules.)

Highlights of the 2016 second quarter include:

• Completion of public equity offering, raising $60 million in net proceeds to repay outstanding debt.
• Amendment of credit facility and debt agreements, providing enhanced financial flexibility.
• For our Compression Division, net cash provided by operating activities was $20.5 million, loss before tax was $(4.0) million, and adjusted EBITDA(1) was $24.7 million.
• A growing backlog in our Offshore Services segment as we exited the second quarter.
• Continued aggressive reduction of expenses across the company, including salary reductions and reduced workweek schedules.

(1) Non-GAAP financial measures are reconciled to GAAP in the schedules below.

Analysis of Second Quarter Results

Stuart M. Brightman, TETRA's President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "During the second quarter of 2016, most of our markets continued to experience a decline in activity and high levels of competitiveness. Even with this unfavorable environment, our results improved sequentially, compared to the first quarter of 2016, as a result of seasonal improvements in several of our businesses combined with the ongoing positive impact of cost reductions.

"Also during the second quarter we completed a public equity offering, raising $60 million in net proceeds that were used primarily to repay outstanding debt, and we successfully negotiated the amendment of our primary debt agreements, providing us with enhanced financial flexibility. These two actions represent important steps for our long-term success, as they strengthen our balance sheet, provide additional liquidity, and better position us to respond rapidly when activity levels rebound.

"Our Fluids Division's revenues for the second quarter of 2016 were $60.8 million compared to $123.0 million in the second quarter of 2015. Similar to what we saw in the first quarter of this year, the decrease was predominately the result of continued lower demand in North America, a lack of major projects in the Gulf of Mexico, and continued pricing pressure in many international markets. Our seasonal increase in activity in the European chemical business somewhat mitigated this trend. Overall, this resulted in pretax income of $0.4 million and adjusted pretax income of $1.0 million for the Fluids Division in the second quarter of 2016, compared to pretax income of $32.6 million and adjusted pretax income of $32.8 million in the second quarter of 2015. Going forward into the second half of this year, our expectations for the Fluids Division are that we will see slightly improved activity in North America and an increase in offshore activity associated with projects currently in our backlog.

"Second quarter 2016 results for our Production Testing Division represent a sequential decrease from the first quarter of 2016, with a pretax loss of $(4.3) million and an adjusted pretax loss of $(4.2) million in this year's second quarter compared to a pretax loss of $(19.3) million and an adjusted pretax loss of $(2.3) million in this year's first quarter. Similar to the Fluids Division, this was driven primarily by a continued reduction in activity in North America and in certain international markets. Also similar to the Fluids Division, we expect to see a slight increase in activity for Production Testing in the second half of this year with a modest increase in completions activity.

"For the second quarter of 2016 our Compression Division reported a pretax loss of $(4.0) million and an adjusted pretax loss of $(3.1) million compared to a pretax loss of $(104.7) million and an adjusted pretax loss of $(4.3) million in the first quarter of 2016. During the second quarter, the Division experienced a continued decrease in utilization of our compression services and a continued reduction in equipment sales. Adjusted EBITDA of $24.7 million for the second quarter of this year represented an improvement over adjusted EBITDA of $23.6 million in the first quarter of this year, primarily due to the continued benefit of cost reduction actions. On July 22, 2016, CSI Compressco LP declared a distribution attributable to the second quarter of 2016 of $0.3775 per unit, unchanged from the distribution attributable to the first quarter of this year. This distribution resulted in a coverage ratio of 1.19x for the second quarter of 2016.

"Our Offshore Service segment reported pretax income of $37,000 and adjusted pretax income of $93,000 in the second quarter of 2016 compared to pretax income of $2.1 million in the second quarter of 2015. The segment's improvement on a sequential basis, compared to the pretax loss of $(7.7) million reported in the first quarter of 2016, is due to the normal seasonal activity of the second quarter. In addition, the backlog for our major assets continued to firm-up during the second quarter, and we expect the third quarter to show a typical seasonal improvement over the second quarter, sequentially."

Special Charges and Maritech

Maritech reported a pre-tax loss of $(3.4) million in the second quarter of 2016. The primary contributor to this loss was the write-off of a receivable of $2.8 million associated with the uncertainty of our ability to collect future reimbursements for P&A work performed on certain Maritech properties.

Financial Guidance

Given the operating environment and expectations of a prolonged downturn, the management team remains focused on adjusted free cash flow. The forecast for full year 2016 TETRA only adjusted free cash flow is a range of $30 to $50 million. No reconciliation of the forecasted range of adjusted free cash flow for the full year 2016 is included in this release because the reconciliation would require presenting forecasted information for CSI Compressco that is not publicly disclosed.

Conference Call

TETRA will host a conference call to discuss second quarter 2016 results today, August 8, 2016, at 10:30 am ET. The phone number for the call is (888) 347-5303. The conference will also be available by live audio webcast and may be accessed through TETRA's website at www.tetratec.com.

Financial Statements, Schedules and Non-GAAP Reconciliation Schedules (Unaudited)

Schedule A: Consolidated Income Statement Schedule B: Financial Results By Segment Schedule C: Consolidated Balance Sheet Schedule D: Long-Term Debt Schedule E: Second Quarter Special Charges Schedule F: Non-GAAP Reconciliation to GAAP Financials Schedule G: Non-GAAP Reconciliation to Adjusted Free Cash Flow Schedule H: Non-GAAP Reconciliation of TETRA Net Debt

Company Overview and Forward Looking Statements

TETRA is a geographically diversified oil and gas services company, focused on completion fluids and associated products and services, water management, frac flowback, production well testing, offshore rig cooling, compression services and equipment, and selected offshore services including well plugging and abandonment, decommissioning, and diving. TETRA owns an equity interest, including all of the general partner interest, in CSI Compressco LP (NADAQ: CCLP), a master limited partnership.

This press release includes certain statements that are deemed to be forward-looking statements. Generally, the use of words such as "may," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "projects," "anticipate," "believe," "assume," "could," "should," "plans," "targets" or similar expressions that convey the uncertainty of future events, activities, expectations or outcomes identify forward-looking statements that the Company intends to be included within the safe harbor protections provided by the federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements include statements concerning expected results of operational business segments for 2016, anticipated benefits from CSI Compressco following the acquisition of CSI in 2014, including increases in cash distributions per unit, projections concerning the Company's business activities, financial guidance, estimated earnings, earnings per share, and statements regarding the Company's beliefs, expectations, plans, goals, future events and performance, and other statements that are not purely historical. These forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions and analyses made by the Company in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors it believes are appropriate in the circumstances. Such statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, including the ability of CSI Compressco to successfully integrate the operations of CSI and recognize the anticipated benefits of the acquisition. Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performances or results and that actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Some of the factors that could affect actual results are described in the section titled "Risk Factors" contained in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, as well as other risks identified from time to time in its reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to financial results determined in accordance with GAAP, this press release includes the following non-GAAP financial measures for the Company: net debt, adjusted consolidated and segment income (loss) before taxes, excluding the Maritech segment and special charges; adjusted EBITDA; and adjusted free cash flow. The following schedules provide reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures. The non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP, as more fully discussed in the Company's financial statements and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Management believes that following the sale of essentially all of Maritech's oil and gas properties, it is helpful to show the Company's results excluding the impact of the costs and charges relating to the decommissioning of Maritech's remaining properties since these results will show the Company's historical results of operations on a basis consistent with expected future operations. Management also believes that the exclusion of the special charges from the historical results of operations enables management to evaluate more effectively the Company's operations over the prior periods and to identify operating trends that could be obscured by the excluded items.

Adjusted income (loss) before taxes (and adjusted income (loss) before taxes as a percent of revenue) is defined as the Company's (or its Segments') income (loss) before taxes excluding certain special or other charges (or credits). Adjusted income (loss) before taxes (and adjusted income (loss) before taxes as a percent of revenue) is used by management as a supplemental financial measure to assess financial performance, without regard to charges or credits that are considered by management to be outside of its normal operations.

Adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share is defined as the Company's diluted earnings (loss) per share excluding certain special or other charges (or credits) and using a normalized effective income tax rate. Adjusted diluted earnings (loss) per share is used by management as a supplemental financial measure to assess financial performance, without regard to charges or credits that are considered by management to be outside of its normal operations.

Adjusted EBITDA is defined as adjusted income before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, impairments and special charges, and equity compensation. Adjusted EBITDA is used by management as a supplemental financial measure to assess the financial performance of the Company's assets, without regard to financing methods, capital structure or historical cost basis and to assess the Company's ability to incur and service debt and fund capital expenditures.

TETRA only adjusted free cash flow is a non-GAAP measure that the Company defines as cash from TETRA's operations, excluding cash settlements of Maritech AROs, less capital expenditures net of sales proceeds, and including cash distributions to TETRA from CSI Compressco LP. Management uses this supplemental financial measure to:

• assess the Company's ability to retire debt;
• evaluate the capacity of the Company to further invest and grow; and
• to measure the performance of the Company as compared to its peer group of companies.

TETRA only adjusted free cash flow does not necessarily imply residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures, as it excludes cash requirements for debt service or other non-discretionary expenditures that are not deducted.

TETRA net debt is defined as the sum of long-term and short-term debt on its consolidated balance sheet, less cash, excluding restricted cash on the consolidated balance sheet and excluding the debt and cash of CSI Compressco LP. Management views TETRA net debt as a measure of TETRA's ability to reduce debt, add to cash balances, pay dividends, repurchase stock, and fund investing and financing activities.

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