Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Stockholders' Equity

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Stockholders' Equity
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
Equity [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity
STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
At-the-Market Program
The Company maintains an at-the-market equity offering program pursuant to which Tellurian may sell shares of its common stock from time to time on the NASDAQ or any other market for the common stock in the U.S., through Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC acting as sales agent, for aggregate sales proceeds of up to $200 million. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company issued 1.0 million shares of common stock under this program, for proceeds of $10.3 million, net of $0.5 million in fees and commissions.
TOTAL Investment
In January 2017, pursuant to a common stock purchase agreement dated as of December 19, 2016, between Tellurian Investments and TOTAL Delaware, Inc. (“TOTAL”), TOTAL purchased, and Tellurian Investments sold and issued to TOTAL, approximately 35.4 million shares of Tellurian Investments common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $207 million, net of offering costs. In connection with the Merger, the shares purchased by TOTAL were exchanged for approximately 46 million shares of Tellurian common stock.
In May 2017, Tellurian and TOTAL entered into a pre-emptive rights agreement pursuant to which TOTAL was granted a right to purchase its pro rata portion of any new equity securities that Tellurian may issue to a third party on the same terms and conditions as such equity securities are offered and sold to such party, subject to certain excepted offerings (the “Pre-emptive Rights Agreement”). Pursuant to the common stock purchase agreement dated as of December 19, 2016, between Tellurian Investments and TOTAL, the terms and conditions of the Pre-emptive Rights Agreement are similar to those contained in the pre-emptive rights agreement dated as of January 3, 2017, between Tellurian Investments and TOTAL, but the Pre-emptive Rights Agreement is subject to additional excepted offerings.
Tellurian Preferred Stock
In March 2017, GE Oil & Gas, Inc. (now known as GE Oil & Gas, LLC) (“GE”), as the holder of all 5.5 million outstanding shares of Tellurian Investments Series A convertible preferred stock (the “Tellurian Investments Preferred Shares”), exchanged those shares into an equal number of shares of Tellurian Inc. Series B convertible preferred stock (the “Series B Preferred Stock”) pursuant to the terms of the Tellurian Investments Certificate of Incorporation (the “Preferred Share Exchange”). The terms of the Series B Preferred Stock were substantially similar to those of the Tellurian Investments Preferred Shares. The Series B Preferred Stock were exchangeable at any time into shares of the Company’s common stock on a one-for-one basis, subject to anti-dilution adjustments in certain circumstances. In June 2017, GE, as the holder of all 5.5 million outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock exercised its right to convert all such shares of Series B Preferred Stock into 5.5 million shares of Tellurian common stock pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Series B Preferred Stock.
Embedded Derivative
The ability of GE to exchange the Tellurian Investments Preferred Shares into shares of Series B Preferred Stock or into shares of Tellurian common stock following the Merger required the fair value of such features to be bifurcated from the contract and recognized as an embedded derivative until the Merger Date.
The fair value of the embedded derivative was determined through the use of a model which utilizes certain observable inputs such as the price of Magellan common stock at various points in time and the volatility of Magellan common stock over an assumed half-year and one-year holding period from February 10, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. At each valuation date, the model also included (i) unobservable inputs related to the weighted probabilities of certain Merger-related scenarios and (ii) a discount for the lack of marketability determined through the use of commonly accepted methods. We have therefore classified the fair value measurements of this embedded derivative as Level 3 inputs. On the Merger Date, the embedded derivative was reclassified to additional paid-in capital in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
The following table summarizes the changes in fair value for the embedded derivative (in thousands):
 
 
February 10, 2017
 
December 31, 2016
Fair value at the beginning of period and initial fair value, respectively
 
$
8,753

 
$
5,445

(Gain) loss on exchange feature
 
(2,209
)
 
3,308

Fair value at the end of the period and year, respectively
 
$
6,544

 
$
8,753