Saudi Arabia still plans to go through with both the international and domesticofferings of shares in Aramco in 2018, Saudi Oil Minister Khalid Al Falih said on Tuesday, according to Bloomberg. His statements follow heightened speculation that the Kingdom was considering delaying its IPO and was even entertaining a possible direct sale of 5% of the company to a consortium of Chinese state-owned oil companies. Al Falih declined to answer questions on whether Chinese investors were interested in buying.

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