Custodianship \Cus*to"di*an*ship\, n. Office or duty of a custodian.
The Saudi royal family's custodianship of the holy shrines is its main source of legitimacy with the world's 1 billion Moslems.
"It'll be the big ones, the ones that are likely to have the custodianship of pension plans," he said.
The company could already boast being the world's biggest exporter and its custodianship of the kingdom's 258bn barrels of recoverable crude gives it unchallenged reserves - more than a quarter of the world's known oil.
They are in a region of western Saudi Arabia called Hijaz and under the custodianship of the Saudi royal family.