Saudi Aramco's public listing revolutionary in many ways

New York

IT is hard to get one's head around it: An initial public offering (IPO) that would value a company in the trillions of dollars. That is trillions, with a T.

Saudi Arabia is considering selling shares in its state oil company. With 261 billion barrels of oil in reserves and a yearly output of over three billion barrels of oil, the company, Saudi Aramco, is a behemoth by any measure.