Looking for an explosion proof mobile phone for Petrobras sites in Brazil? Petrobras runs the country's dominant integrated oil and gas business: Santos Basin pre-salt production, Campos Basin fields served from Macaé, the largest part of the national refining system, and, through Transpetro, pipelines and coastal terminals. This page is for the HSE, instrumentation and telecoms people who decide what a person may carry across a classified boundary at any of them. The IS-04Z1 is designed around intrinsic safety rather than a flameproof enclosure.
Launching Q4 2026 · certification and vendor documentation in progress
Petrobras is not one hazardous area but four different working worlds under one name. Offshore, a person lives on a floating unit for a rotation and every walk is inside a classified deck or a module next to one. In a refinery, the classified area is a fixed set of process units and the visitors are contracted crews. On the pipeline and terminal side, sites are small, remote and often unmanned between visits. Each pattern asks a different thing of a handset, which is why a single answer about hazardous-area phones rarely survives contact with the whole company.
Classification decides whether a device can be carried. After that, the environment and the work pattern decide whether it is still useful at the end of the trip.
A pre-salt deck, a jetty at a Rio terminal and a refinery unit near the coast all combine warm air, salt and humidity. IP68 sealing and the rugged build cover the physical side; the temperature class is what the instrumentation engineer checks against the area drawing.
An offshore technician is on the unit for the whole rotation and a damaged phone waits for the next crew change. The 4,000 mAh battery is specified to carry a working day between charges in the accommodation block, which is where the charger will be.
Offshore, refining, logistics and corporate users have different applications and different risk. Android Enterprise management from an existing MDM console lets each group get its own profile without a separate toolchain.
Records of a valve position or a defect are only useful if they can be taken where the work is done. Photography rules differ by unit, so the camera has to be something a console can restrict instead of a feature that is simply absent.
Training and inspection records are expected in the working language. The Android 16 interface runs in Brazilian Portuguese, and Portuguese documentation is part of the launch package.
The outgoing technician has a rotation's worth of small observations: a valve that sticks, a gauge that drifts. A handset on deck lets those be photographed and logged before the boat, instead of being reconstructed from memory in the helicopter.
A planned shutdown concentrates a year of maintenance into weeks and fills the units with contracted crews. A supervisor inside the battery limit can confirm an isolation, check a permit and reach the planning room without walking to the gate.
A compressor or metering station may be visited rarely and staffed by one or two people. Navigation by four-constellation GNSS, a photograph of the instrument and a call to the control room come from one device.
No. The device is pre-launch, and IECEx, ATEX, NEC 500 and the Brazilian INMETRO route are all in progress ahead of the Q4 2026 launch. Nothing should be taken into a classified area on the strength of this page.
The protection concept and area classification are the same questions on both, but the evidence a unit asks for can differ. Offshore users will also work under NR-37, so ask each unit's HSE team which certificates and records it will want to see before a device is issued.
Petrobras's supplier registration is described on the Brazil overview page and runs through its own procurement portal. Requirements are set by Petrobras and can change, so confirm the current criteria with Petrobras directly rather than relying on a third-party summary.
They are separate companies within the same group, and a terminal or pipeline site may follow its own procedures. Ask whichever team owns the site, not the group, which standard applies.
Tell us the site, the zone and gas group, and roughly how many handsets. The SAMS team replies by email with the datasheet and the certification schedule for Brazil. The IS-04Z1 is pre-launch and certification is in progress, so there is no list price yet; indicative pricing is issued in writing against a stated quantity and site.
Tell us the zone, gas group and operator. We will send the datasheet and the certification schedule for your market.
