Looking for an explosion proof mobile phone for oil and gas work in India? The sector runs from state-owned refineries spread across a dozen states, through ONGC platforms off Mumbai and Reliance's Jamnagar complex in Gujarat, to Petronet LNG's regasification terminals at Dahej and Kochi. This page is for the HSE, instrumentation and telecoms teams who decide what a person may carry past the gate. The IS-04Z1 is designed around intrinsic safety rather than a flameproof enclosure.
Launching Q4 2026 · ATEX and PESO programme in progress
Indian oil and gas is not one place but four different working environments. Inland refineries such as Panipat and Mathura process crude that arrives by pipeline and leave by road, rail and product line. Coastal refineries at Jamnagar, Koyali, Kochi, Mangalore and Visakhapatnam add jetties, tank farms and marine handling. Offshore, platforms are reached by helicopter or supply vessel, and the LNG terminals at Dahej and Kochi turn a cargo into pipeline gas through tanks, vaporisers and compressors. Process units, pump houses, tank farms and jetty heads are classified for hydrocarbon gas, and the nearest unclassified room with a socket can be a long walk away.
Area classification decides whether a handset may enter at all. The sector then decides how long it lasts.
Hydrotreaters and hydrocrackers run on hydrogen-rich gas at high pressure, and hydrogen sits in gas group IIC. A handset marked only for IIA or IIB would be left at the gate on those units. The IS-04Z1 marking target is II 2 G Ex ib IIC T4, so the same device can be carried across the whole site.
Jamnagar, Dahej, Kochi and the Mumbai High platforms all sit in salt-laden air for most of the year. IP68 sealing keeps spray and monsoon rain out of the ports, though how long any enclosure lasts in service is a question for the evaluation, not the datasheet.
A refinery shutdown puts large contractor crews inside the battery limits on permits issued each shift, under the work-permit practice the Oil Industry Safety Directorate sets out in its standards. Enrolling handsets in your existing MDM lets the shift in-charge restrict applications and switch off the camera where photography is not allowed.
A failed device on a platform waits for the next helicopter or vessel movement. That puts weight on a battery specified around a 4,000 mAh cell, on a sealed IP68 body, and on holding spares at the shore base rather than relying on a courier.
During a unit shutdown the same bay can hold electricians, scaffolders, inspectors and operators, each under a different permit. A handset that carries the permit, a gas-test record and a call to the planning cell saves the walk back to the shift office, which is where most of the day is lost.
Dahej has two LNG jetties, one able to take Q-Flex vessels and one able to take Q-Max. During an unloading, jetty, marine and control-room staff talk through a narrow window. A single device for voice, checklist and photographs avoids carrying a radio and a clipboard along the jetty head.
A platform operator walks a compact deck in a fixed sequence of rounds. Pairing a handset to a gas detector over Bluetooth and logging readings against the asset tag leaves a record that the incoming shift can read before it steps off the helicopter.
The state-owned refiners and ONGC buy through vendor registration and e-tendering, which in practice takes longer than any single certificate. Private operators run their own, separate processes. Approval at one company does not carry to another.
No. The device is pre-launch and certification, including PESO, IECEx and ATEX, is still in progress ahead of the Q4 2026 launch. We will not supply a unit into a classified area before the certificates covering it exist.
Yes. PESO is India's regulatory authority for hazardous-area equipment and works alongside the international schemes. An IECEx certificate is the evidence the PESO route relies on; it does not replace the approval itself.
No. Each company runs its own procurement and site-access process, whether it is state-owned or private. Do not assume that a tender listing at one carries to another.
Refiners generally follow the Oil Industry Safety Directorate's area classification standard, OISD-STD-113, alongside the IS/IEC 60079 series. The classification for a particular unit is set by the site's competent person, not by us or by a handset datasheet.
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 India. 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.
