Ireland's hazardous heavy industry is a short list of large sites: the Whitegate refinery in Cork Harbour, the Corrib gas terminal at Bellanaboy in Mayo, and the Shannon Estuary, where Aughinish Alumina, the Foynes fuel terminal and the Moneypoint power station stand. This page is for the people who specify an explosion proof mobile phone for oil, gas and heavy industry in Ireland. The SAMS IS-04Z1 is designed for Zone 1 and Zone 21 and is being certified ahead of its Q4 2026 launch. The IS-04Z1 is designed around intrinsic safety rather than a flameproof enclosure.
Launching Q4 2026 · certification programme in progress
The Health and Safety Authority's upper tier COMAH list is a reasonable map of this sector. It includes Irving Oil's Whitegate refinery, Calor's LPG site at Whitegate, the Atlantic Fuel Supply Company terminal at Foynes Harbour and the ESB's Moneypoint generating station at Killimer in Clare. Corrib is separate, a gas field in the Atlantic with its processing terminal at Bellanaboy, and Aughinish Alumina on the Shannon is Europe's largest alumina refinery. These are very different sites with very different hazards: hydrocarbon vapour at Whitegate, natural gas at Bellanaboy, fuel storage and loading at Foynes, and coal handling and fuel oil at Moneypoint. A phone policy cannot be written once for all of them; the area classification at each site is what governs.
These are coastal sites with changeable weather and a heavy reliance on contractors for shutdowns. The conditions are specific.
Foynes, Moneypoint and Whitegate all sit on tidal water, and Bellanaboy is on the Mayo coast. Rain and salt air are normal, and IP68 sealing is the baseline. The target marking of II 2 G Ex ib IIC T4 is the figure that matters inside the plant boundary.
Refinery and power station outages arrive in blocks, with many contractors on site for weeks. A managed Android 16 handset can be issued, locked to the approved applications and wiped on exit, which a personal phone cannot.
Methane at Bellanaboy, mixed hydrocarbons at Whitegate, LPG at the gas site, and hydrogen where it is present all fall in groups the IS-04Z1 is designed to cover through its group IIC target. The classification drawing for each area still decides.
A refinery or power station spreads over a big footprint, and a round from the control room to a far tank can be a long walk. The 4,000 mAh battery is specified for a full shift, and four-constellation GNSS locates a defect on a large site.
A 50 MP camera and a recorded location make a defect report concrete. MDM policy on the camera can be applied where site photography rules demand it.
A process operator walks a route through units and tanks, and a turnaround planner follows a work pack. See the page on an explosion proof phone for Irving Oil for detail on that site.
A small crew runs a remote terminal, and a lone worker needs a position fix and a link. The explosion proof phone for Vermilion Energy page sets this out.
Staff on a jetty supervise a transfer and need to speak to a vessel and to the control room, with a handset that tolerates spray and a wet deck.
The Health and Safety Authority publishes the list and updates it. It includes Whitegate refinery, Foynes, Moneypoint and the Whitegate LPG site, among others. Check the current list rather than relying on this page.
Parts of it can be. A large alumina plant has combustion plant and fuel storage, but most of its process is not flammable-atmosphere work. The site's area classification identifies exactly where a handset must be Ex rated.
Where coal is handled, dust zones around conveyors, mills and storage are common, and Zone 21 is the design target for the IS-04Z1. Whether Moneypoint's current fuel handling has such areas is for ESB to say.
No. The IS-04Z1 is pre-launch with certification in progress, and SAMS has no supply relationship with the operators named here.
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 Ireland. 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.
