NEXANS SPIDER

terrain dredger system

Installation Services Section

 The SPIDER system was developed for the excavation of the escarpment area on ORMEN LANGE.
The 30 degree slope required a pre dredge trench of 10 m and 4 m deep in 30 degree slope.
In the stiff to hard seabed, the SPIDER dredged these sectiion successfuly in 2005.
The terrain dredger system was based on the idea of the Menzimuck terrain forester machine,
and is classified as walking machine.
The SPIDER has proven capacity in up to 300 kPa soil, can handle boulder up to 10”,
and has an arm with reach of 6 m. It maneuvers with both use of thrusters or
by the use of the walking legs.
Further it has a fully operational VR control system,
and all operation are done in 100% VR and with no requirement of any visibility.

Size & weight Electronic/Data

Control Container : 20´ 7t 27 Gbit uplink/175 Mbaud downlink with 5 x Rs232
Workshops : 1 x 20´ 4t each and 5 x Rs485/422, 6 x video and 2 x imaging sonar links,
Transformer Container : 1 x 20’ 13t Ethernet with 3 x 10 Mbits links Typical
Storage container 20’ 7t 16 extra Rs232 on Ethernet 1 Ghz main computer
Generators (optional) : 2 x 20’ 15-18t each on control system.
Umbilical winch : 4.4 x 3 x 2.8m, 30t
SPIDER : 5 x 4 x 2.5m, 11t
Control system
Hydraulic system All data are collected on a serial to Ethernet drop down network
which gives “local” control of all sensors and valvepacks.
1 x 135 HP HPU for thrusters The lates control system technology as OPC,
1 x 75 HPU for arm and legs distributed data collection,
8 x 17” thrusters (each 550kg) touchscreens and WEB based monitoring and support tools.
Bollard pull The system can be fully supported throuht the internet and
Fwd approx 1500 kg low speed connections.
Lateral 500 kg Realtime control system for transformer control and LARS
Vertical 1000 kg and umbilical winch control and monitoring.

Sensors (typical)
Arm system and ejector pumps Six color video cameras
Mesotech 1000 sonar
1 x 420 KW cutting pump
Digiquarts pressure sensor
125 KW ejector pump
Mesotech digital altimeter
14” ejector
2 x Octans Fiberoptical survey gyro
Max reach 6 m
Two off electrical P&T units
Max vertical range (-3 to + 3 m)
Linear sensors 16 off
Sediment sensor

Frame and lift structure

Titanium air filled structure
pressure rating 2000 m
Buoyancy for 1000 m

Nexans Norway AS
Installation Services Section
P. O. Box 6450 Etterstad, N-0605 Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47 22 88 61 00. Fax: +47 22 88 63 60
www. nexans.no
post.marine@nexans.com