Anyone specifying an explosion proof mobile phone in Jordan's downstream sector ends up at Zarqa. JPRC operates the country's only refinery there, which came onstream in 1961 and has been expanded in stages since, so one site carries several generations of plant. This page is for the HSE officers, instrumentation engineers and turnaround planners who have to decide what a person may carry into those units. The IS-04Z1 is designed around intrinsic safety rather than a flameproof enclosure.
Launching Q4 2026 · IECEx certification in progress
The refinery was built by Snamprogetti and inaugurated in February 1961 at a small initial capacity, then expanded in phases through 1970, the mid-1970s and the early 1980s. Reference sources give its current capacity as about 60,000 barrels a day; a modernisation and a much larger fourth-phase expansion have been announced, and we do not assess their status. Beyond crude distillation, JPRC produces LPG, fills gas cylinders and runs a lubricants plant, and it owns an oil terminal and storage in Aqaba. A refinery is classified gas territory: Zone 1 and Zone 2 around process units, pumps, tanks and loading, with the gas group set by what a unit handles. Where a unit carries hydrogen-rich streams, IIC applies, which is why the marking target for the IS-04Z1 is Ex ib IIC.
The newest phone and the oldest drawing meet at Zarqa. The device has to fit the drawing, not the other way round.
Areas added in the 1970s and 1980s were classified to the practice of their day, and revision has been piecemeal. A Zone 1, Ex ib IIC, T4 target is broad enough to cover the lot, but the temperature class still has to be checked unit by unit against the process fluids.
Tall columns and dense pipe racks make GNSS less reliable between structures. Four-constellation GNSS helps in open yards, and tag numbers and photographs from the 50 MP camera remain the primary record inside units.
Zarqa sits on the edge of the desert, with hot summers and windblown dust. IP68 sealing keeps dust and wash-down water out, and the 4,000 mAh battery is specified for a shift without a safe-area charge.
A refinery restricts photographs. A camera that can be switched off by policy through Android Enterprise and MDM is the usual answer, rather than a handset without one.
A single refinery cannot stop for long without affecting national fuel supply, so shutdown windows are planned carefully and filled with contractor crews. We have not seen JPRC's turnaround calendar and do not state one. Operators work shifts with field rounds between units, while maintenance, inspection and contractor teams concentrate in tank farms, process units and pumphouses during outages. Permit volumes spike at turnaround, which is where a device that carries the permit, the site directory and a camera saves the most time. For the wider sector, see explosion proof phone for oil, gas and refining in Jordan.
An outside operator logs pump and tank readings, photographs a leaking gland and reports it to the control room without a walk back to a safe area.
Contractors arrive in a short window. Enrolled devices issued at induction hold the permit app and site directory, and are wiped when the job closes.
Loading supervisors confirm product, compartment and bay by photograph and record, in a zone that treats a stray ignition source seriously.
We have not verified JPRC's current supplier registration steps and describe none. Ask its procurement and HSE teams for supplier requirements and its equipment selection rules for classified areas. Expect requests for the Ex certificate and complete marking string, the temperature class and ambient range, a radio type approval reference, user documentation in Arabic and English and a written service route.
The IS-04Z1 does not yet hold any of those. IECEx and ATEX certification are in progress ahead of the Q4 2026 launch, and the datasheet and certification schedule can go into a review now. Supply is normally expected to run through a Jordanian-registered partner, as the Jordan country page explains.
No. JPRC runs the refinery, LPG filling and lubricants; JoPetrol markets and distributes fuel. Each has its own procurement, so a conversation with one does not stand in for the other.
A large construction programme brings new contractors and new classified areas to a live site. Devices issued under one enrolled policy keep that traffic manageable, but the area drawings for new units come from the project, not from us.
The marking target is Ex ib IIC, which covers hydrogen, but the certificate and the unit classification decide, not the label. Check each unit's gas group and temperature class with JPRC engineering.
Yes, those are normally safe areas, where it works as an Android Enterprise phone. Its value is crossing the boundary into process areas without changing device.
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 Jordan. 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.
