Mexico’s state oil firm Pemex is asking some of its contractors if they would agree to be paid for their services next year, people familiar with the payment situation at the company with US$105 billion of debt told Bloomberg . Pemex is no longer issuing invoice numbers in some cases, and three contractors have been asked if they could wait until next year to receive a total of US$115 million for the work they are doing now, according to Bloomberg’s sources. “But the reality is that Pemex owes them this money. What it means is that Pemex has a massive additional debt burden,” Wilbur Matthews, founder of Vaquero Global Investment LP, which trades in Pemex bonds, told Bloomberg in an interview. Mexico’s leftist populist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador planned to make Pemex the pillar of a turnaround for the country’s declining oil production, but the oil price crash […]