Impairments and Other Charges

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Asset Impairment Charges [Abstract]

Impairments and Other Charges

IMPAIRMENTS AND OTHER CHARGES

Impairments of Long-Lived Assets

During the fourth quarter of 2019, we recorded an impairment of $91.6 million in our Completion Fluids & Products Division related to our El Dorado, Arkansas calcium chloride production plant facility assets. The impairment charge was primarily the result of a reduction in the cost of raw materials for certain of our other chemical production plants, following the execution of a long-term raw material supply agreement during the fourth quarter of 2019. As a result, we expected to reduce our dependence on calcium chloride produced at the El Dorado facility, which used a different production process, involving mechanical evaporation. In addition, demand for calcium chloride from the El Dorado plant was expected to be reduced due to general market conditions in the oil and gas industry. Using the reduced expected future net cash flows on an undiscounted basis, we determined that the carrying value of the El Dorado facility was not recoverable. Fair value of the El Dorado facility was determined using a fair value in-exchange assumption, and the difference between the carrying value of the El Dorado facility asset group and its indicated fair value was recorded as an impairment.

Impairment of Goodwill

Our Water & Flowback Services Division consists of two reporting units, Production Testing and Water Management. During the fourth quarter of 2019, coinciding with the timing of our annual goodwill assessment, there was further decline in the energy industry outlook, resulting in decreased expected future cash flows for our Water Management reporting unit. As part of the first step of goodwill impairment testing for our Water Management reporting unit, the only reporting unit with goodwill, we updated our assessment of the future cash flows, applying expected long-term growth rates, discount rates, and terminal values that we considered reasonable for the reporting unit. We calculated a present value of the cash flows for the Water Management reporting unit to arrive at an estimate of fair value using a combination of the income approach and the market approach. Based on these assumptions, we determined that the fair value of the Water Management reporting unit was less than its carrying value indicating an impairment. The amount of impairment was calculated based on the difference between the fair value and carrying value in accordance with our early adoption of ASU 2017-04 “Intangibles-Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment.” This resulted in an impairment of the entire goodwill balance of $25.8 million at December 31, 2019.