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UNITED STATES
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SCHEDULE 14A

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Amendment No. 1 to Schedule 14A (this “Amendment”) is being filed to amend TETRA Technologies, Inc.’s (the “Company”) definitive proxy statement (the “Proxy Statement”) for its 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2021 Annual Meeting”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 13, 2021. This Amendment amends Proposal No. 4 (Approval of the First Amended and Restated 2018 Equity Incentive Plan) of the Proxy Statement (“Proposal No. 4”). Proposal No. 4, includes a summary of the principal terms of the 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2018 Plan”) and requests approval of the Company’s First Amended and Restated 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Amended 2018 Plan”) in order to both (i) increase the number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), available for issuance under the 2018 Plan by 5,500,000 shares and (ii) ease the administrative burden of maintaining two equity incentive plans by permitting non-employee directors to participate in the Amended 2018 Plan (subject to an annual individual limit on the fair market value of non-employee director awards of $300,000).

In Proposal No. 4 of the Proxy Statement, the Company made statements regarding the factors considered in setting the number of additional shares of Common Stock requested for reservation under the Amended 2018 Plan, including (i) the number of shares of Common Stock remaining available for issuance under the 2018 Plan as of the close of business on each of December 31, 2020 and March 29, 2021, and (ii) the potential dilution rate from the increased share reserve of the Amended 2018 Plan and the annual dilution from all of the Company’s equity incentive plans.

The Company has determined that the number of shares shown as remaining available for issuance under the 2018 Plan in the tables under the headings “Equity Compensation Plan Information” and “Shares Available for Grant and Outstanding Awards” in the Proxy Statement was inaccurate, which had a corresponding impact on the annual dilution rate from all of the Company’s equity plans reported for 2020 in the table under the heading “Potential Dilution” in the Proxy Statement. This Amendment hereby removes the tables identified in the preceding sentence included in the Proxy Statement and replaces them with the tables below. The footnotes and narrative associated with each of the below tables contained in the Proxy Statement are correct and as such have not been included in this Amendment.

Equity Compensation Plan Information

In the table below, we provide information about the shares of our common stock that may be issued under the 2018 Plan as of December 31, 2020, the end of our most recent fiscal year.

Plan Category	Number of Securities to be Issued upon Exercise of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights ⁽¹⁾		Weighted Average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights ⁽²⁾		Number of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance under Equity Compensation Plans (Excluding Securities Shown in the First Column)
Equity compensation plans
approved by stockholders⁽³⁾
2007 Long Term Incentive		547,863	$	6.79		—
2011 Long Term Incentive		2,564,124	$	6.73		—
2018 Non-Employee Director⁽⁴⁾		—		—		171,898
2018 Long Term Incentive ⁽⁴⁾		3,057,327	$	4.19		2,309,199
Total		6,169,314	$	6.73		2,481,097
Equity compensation plans not
approved by stockholders⁽⁵⁾
Serrano Plan		79,051	$	6.60		—
2018 Inducement Restricted Stock Plan		—		—		76,495
Total		79,051	$	6.60		76,495
All Plans Total ⁽⁶⁾		6,248,365	$	6.73		2,557,592

Shares Available for Grant and Outstanding Awards

The following table summarizes information regarding awards outstanding and shares remaining available for grant under the 2018 Plan, the Director Plan, the 2011 Plan, the 2007 Plan and under the Inducement Plan, as of the close of business on March 29, 2021:

	2018 Plan	All Other Plans		Inducement Plan
Total shares underlying outstanding stock options and restricted stock units	3,904,508		3,096,658	__
Weighted average exercise price of outstanding stock options	$ 4.19	$ 6.74
Weighted average remaining duration (years) of outstanding stock options	7.1		4.7
Total shares underlying outstanding unvested time-based restricted stock awards	24,682		4,242	__
Total shares available for grant	627,455		171,898		76,495

Potential Dilution

In addition to overall dilution, in recommending the increase to the share reserve under the Amended 2018 Plan, the Human Capital Management and Compensation Committee considered annual dilution from our equity incentive plans, as shown on the following table:

	Basic Dilution⁽¹⁾			Fully Diluted⁽²⁾
December 31, 2018		10.7	%		9.7	%
December 31, 2019		9.2	%		8.5	%
December 31, 2020		7.5	%		7.0	%

No other changes have been made to the Proxy Statement or to the matters to be considered by the stockholders at the 2021 Annual Meeting. All other items of the Proxy Statement are incorporated herein by reference without change. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Amendment shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Proxy Statement. This Amendment should be read in conjunction with the Proxy Statement.

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