It does look like they have been selling a *lot* of assets to fund their current...

It does look like they have been selling a lot of assets to fund their current budget deficit:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-28/saudi-arab...

And they already seem to have started issuing bonds:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-arabia-issues-bonds-worth-...

Maybe the Aramco thing is just part of this fire sale to try and prop everything up on the hope that, in the long term, a rise in oil prices will come to their rescue?