Related Party Transaction

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Related Party Transactions [Abstract]

Related Party Transaction

Related Party Transaction

In January 2017, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) notified the Company that it was examining the Company’s federal tax returns for the year ended December 31, 2014. As a result of this examination, the IRS informed the Company on May 1, 2019, that certain employment taxes related to the compensation of our former CEO, Mr. Chisholm, were not properly withheld in 2014 and proposed an adjustment. Mr. Chisholm’s affiliated companies through which he provided his services have agreed to indemnify the Company for any such taxes, and Mr. Chisholm executed a personal guaranty in favor of the Company, supporting this indemnification.

In October 2019, an amendment to the employment agreement of Mr. Chisholm was executed, giving the Company the contractual right of offset for any amounts owed by Mr. Chisholm to the Company for the IRS matter, and giving the Company

the right to withhold payments to Mr. Chisholm equal to amounts reasonably estimated to potentially become due to the Company by the affiliated companies for the IRS matter from any amounts owed under the employment agreement. At December 31, 2019, the Company netted the related party receivable against the severance payable and recorded $1.8 million for potential liability to the IRS. On January 5, 2020, Mr. Chisholm ceased to be an employee of the Company. In September 2020, the Company informed Mr. Chisholm it would cease payment of future severance.

During first quarter of 2020, an additional accrual was recorded for $0.2 million related to potential penalties and interest on the IRS obligation. As of December 31, 2021 and 2020, the receivable from Mr. Chisholm was $1.4 million, which equaled the payable to the IRS and netted with Mr. Chisholm’s severance liability. Both the IRS and severance liabilities are recorded in accrued liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet.

Mr. Ted D. Brown has been a Director of the Company since November of 2013 and has been the President and CEO of Confluence Resources LP (“Confluence”), a private oil and gas exploration and production company formed in 2016. For the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company’s revenues for chemical sales to Confluence was $3.6 million. As of December 31, 2021, Confluence owed $1.3 million to the Company which is recorded in account receivables on the consolidated balance sheet. There were no transactions with Confluence in the year ended December 31, 2020.