Miclyn Express Offshore reported that its Australian business, Samson Express Offshore, has been awarded contracts for three vessels by Saipem Leighton Consortium (SLC) to support construction activities at a LNG terminal development project in Northwest Australia.

Samson VI, Samson VII and Cape Mac will commence operation in July or August 2012 for a duration of one year, plus an option to extend for 183 days.

The aggregate firm value of the three new contracts is $25.3 million.

CEO Diederik de Boer said, “We now have a broad range of Australian compliant vessels working on the northwest shelf. These contracts will assist in maintaining our strong levels of utilization in the Tug fleet leading into financial year 2013, as well as support future earnings in our third party vessel segment.”