Discontinued Operations

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

During the fourth quarter of 2018, the Company initiated and began executing a strategic plan to sell its CICT segment. The Company met all of the criteria to classify the CICT segment as held for sale in the fourth quarter 2018, and classified the assets, liabilities and results of operations for this segment as “Discontinued Operations” for all periods.

On January 10, 2019, the Company entered into a Share Purchase Agreement with Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (“ADM”) for the sale of all of the shares representing membership interests in its wholly-owned subsidiary, Florida Chemical Company, LLC (“FCC”), which represented the CICT segment.

Effective February 28, 2019, the Company completed the sale of FCC to ADM for $175.0 million in cash consideration, subject to post-closing working capital adjustments and potential indemnification claims by ADM. ADM placed $17.5 million in escrow for these items, which were released over a period of time through the second quarter of 2020. The escrow balance included in other current assets was zero and $9.9 million at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Pursuant to the terms of the Share Purchase Agreement, Flotek Chemistry, LLC (“Flotek Chemistry”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a supply agreement in which FCC would supply terpene at specified prices for specified quantities.

As of December 31, 2019, the Company concluded that the original long-term supply agreement met the definition of a loss contract. As such, the Company recognized a current liability and loss of $15.8 million as of December 31, 2019. The loss was capped by the price paid for the terpene supply agreement amendment, executed in February 2020, which aligned purchase commitments to expected usage for blended products as of December 31, 2019.

Pursuant to the post-closing working capital dispute resolution procedures set forth in the Share Purchase Agreement, the Company and ADM engaged a neutral third-party auditor to help reach agreement on the final post-closing working capital adjustment. In February 2020, the third-party auditor ruled in favor of awarding ADM the entire disputed amount of $4.1 million. As a result, the working capital adjustment escrow balance was released to ADM and a corresponding reduction was made to the gain on sale of business as of December 31, 2019.

The following summarized financial information has been reported as Discontinued Operations for the years ended December 31 (in thousands):


	Consumer and Industrial Chemistry Technologies
	2020		2019
Discontinued operations:
Revenue	$	—	$	11,031
Operating expenses	—		(11,572)
Depreciation and amortization	—		—
Research and development	—		(69)


(Loss) income from operations	—		(610)
Other income	—		35
Gain on sale of businesses	—		65,417

Income before income taxes	—		64,842
Income tax expense	—		(22,684)
Net income from discontinued operations	$	—	$	42,158