Glencore Is Said to Near $1 Billion Chevron Southern Africa Deal

Glencore Plc is close to a $1 billion deal to buy Chevron Corp.’s southern African assets, potentially scuppering an earlier agreement with China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., according to three people familiar with the matter. The assets include a 100,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Cape Town and more than 800 gas stations in South Africa and neighboring Botswana. Chevron agreed last year to sell its 75 percent holding in the southern African business to the Chinese group known as Sinopec.