Thomson ReutersSaudi Aramco Chief Executive Officer Khalid al-Falih speaks to the media at the company’s booth during Petrotech 2014 in Manama
“The reserves would not be sold, but the company’s ability to produce from the reserves is being studied,” he told the satellite channel in an interview from Davos, Switzerland where the annual World Economic Forum was held last week.
Aramco has crude reserves of about 265 billion barrels, over 15 percent of all global oil deposits. If it went public, it could become the first listed company valued at $1 trillion, analysts have estimated.
(Reporting By Noah Browning and Hadeel al-Sayegh; Editing by Sami Aboudi and Mark Heinrich)
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