It's hard to grasp just how enormous Saudi Arabia's state oil company is. 

This graphic does a pretty good job of illustrating how the Aramco prints money:

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Total net income is a bit of a misleading indicator though. What really matters to KSA is whether the barrel price exceeds the breakeven price needed to sustain the welfare / providence state and the social peace that comes with it.

Last year the IMF estimated the fiscal breakeven price to be $95. Barrel price is $65 today. So KSA is running on borrowed time.

For now KSA has a pretty low debt-to-GDP ratio so they can get away with running a fiscal deficit for a while longer

Seems like they've got the most to lose as regions electrify.