In every sense of the phrase, Weatherford International recently decided it wouldn’t stand the heat in Sudan.
The $7.8 billion oilfield services company faced strong shareholder opposition to doing business in the war-torn, authoritarian nation. Sudan is a small market for Weatherford anyways, which employs more than 40,000 people. So in March, the company ceased doing business in the country, donating its equipment to a non-profit group drilling water wells in Darfur.
