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Organization and Operations | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Organization and Operations | NOTE 1 — ORGANIZATION AND OPERATIONS We are a geographically diversified oil and gas services company, focused on completion fluids and associated products and services, comprehensive water management, frac flowback, production well testing, offshore rig cooling services, and compression services and equipment. We were incorporated in Delaware in 1981. Our products and services are delivered through three reporting segments – Completion Fluids & Products, Water & Flowback Services, and Compression. Unless the context requires otherwise, when we refer to “we,” “us,” and “our,” we are describing TETRA Technologies, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries on a consolidated basis. Our Completion Fluids & Products Division manufactures and markets clear brine fluids, 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. 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, offshore rig cooling, and other associated services in many of the major oil and gas producing regions in the United States and Mexico, as well as in oil and gas basins in certain countries in Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. Our Compression Division is a provider of compression services and equipment for natural gas and oil production, gathering, artificial lift, transmission, processing, and storage. The Compression Division's equipment sales business includes the fabrication and sale of standard and custom-designed, engineered compressor packages fabricated primarily at our facility in Midland, Texas. The Compression Division's aftermarket business provides a wide range of services to support the needs of customers who own compression equipment as well as the sale of compressor package parts and components manufactured by third-party suppliers. The Compression Division provides its services and equipment to a broad base of natural gas and oil exploration and production, midstream, transmission, and storage companies operating throughout many of the onshore producing regions of the United States, as well as in a number of other countries, including Mexico, Canada, and Argentina.

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