THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Aug. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- TETRA Technologies, Inc. (TETRA or the Company) (NYSE:TTI) today announced that its Compressco Partners, L.P. subsidiary (Compressco Partners or the Partnership), has completed the previously announced purchase of all the outstanding shares of Compressor Systems, Inc. (CSI). At the closing of the transaction, Compressco paid $825.0 million in cash for the acquisition, representing the base purchase price. The purchase price remains subject to adjustment for working capital and other adjustments, post-closing. The purchase price was funded through a combination of cash proceeds from the Partnership's issuances of common units and senior notes, and initial borrowings under a new credit facility.

Stuart Brightman, TETRA's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Compressco Partners, commented, "With this acquisition, we have positioned TETRA to generate improved and more predictable earnings and cash flows, and we anticipate that the expansion of Compressco Partners' portfolio of customers and compression services will provide new opportunities across our organization. We have an integration plan in place, and we will immediately turn our focus toward ensuring that this transaction generates the growth and increased shareholder returns that we anticipate."     

TETRA is a geographically diversified oil and gas services company focused on completion fluids and associated products and services, water management, after-frac flow back, production well testing, offshore rig cooling, compression based production enhancement, and selected offshore services, including well plugging and abandonment, decommissioning, and diving.

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